News | Digital Radiography (DR) | July 15, 2022

Portable digital radiography brought to remote locations in Nepal 

Mike Cairnie, MinXray’s Director of Global Sales, and a group of three medical professionals from Qure.ai brought portable digital radiography to one of the most out-of-the-way regions on the earth, Mount Everest’s southeast base camp in Nepal

July 15, 2022 — Mike Cairnie, MinXray’s Director of Global Sales, and a group of three medical professionals from Qure.ai brought portable digital radiography to one of the most out-of-the-way regions on the earth, Mount Everest’s southeast base camp in Nepal. 

MinXray Inc., a key global supplier of portable, compact digital imaging equipment, is based in the U.S., and Qure.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider, is based in India. The two companies conducted system demonstrations for MinXray’s Impact battery-powered portable digital radiography system with qXR Automated Chest X-ray AI Solution from Qure.ai. The new AI software can detect and localize 30 chest X-ray abnormalities including Tuberculosis. 

The team arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 12 and traveled by foot to the airport in Lukla on April 14. They then flew to the Everest View Hotel, situated within Nepal’s Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Everest View Hotel is the highest built hotel in the world at 13,000 feet. The team spent three days at the hotel for altitude acclimatization and made their final leg of the journey on April 17 to Everest’s southeast base camp, which rests at an elevation of 17,598 feet. 

“Until now, radiographic imaging was not possible in this remote location,” said Cairnie. “If a medical emergency occurs at the base camp or during a climb, this system now make it possible to immediately radiograph the affected party.” Cairnie added, with the addition of the qXR module, both systems can be used as a chest X-ray screening tool to detect signs of abnormalities. 

The MinXray and Qure.ai teams took several sets of radiographs while image testing the Impact system at the Nepali base camp. As this is likely the highest altitude at which a digital X-ray has ever been taken, the team submitted this achievement to the Guinness Book of World Records

For more information: www.minxray.com 


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