Students in North Country Community College’s Radiologic Technology program will benefit from a significant technology upgrade. The program’s Radiology Lab, located on the Saranac Lake campus, was updated recently with the college’s first-ever digital radiography (DR) system. This system instantly converts X-rays into a digital image, displaying anatomy on an adjacent computer screen, unlike traditional film-based radiography.
This upgrade means students will be getting real-world training, as the college’s 13 associated clinical sites – hospitals and other health care facilities across the region – use DR systems in their radiology departments.