MinXray Sets Up Base Camp at Mount Everest

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.

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 MinXray 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.


Other imaging-related news can be found here.

Hot this week

Medtronic Expands AiBLE Spine Surgery Ecosystem with New Technologies and Siemens Healthineers Partnership

New advancements in the AiBLE Spine Surgery ecosystem build upon the company's commitment to procedural innovation and execution

Axlab, Danish Medtech Pioneer, expands to US with Advanced Robotic Tissue Sectioning for Pathology Laboratories

Kris Rokke, National Sales Director for Axlab in the US. "My team and I are extremely excited and honored about this unique opportunity to also offer this advanced technology to labs across the US and thus contribute to the pathology labs of tomorrow."

Spartan Medical Broadens Single-Use Sterile Instrument Portfolio to Improve Outcomes, Increase Efficiency, and Generate Cost Savings

Spartan Medical products portfolio of single-use, sterile med tech includes micro and minor surgical convenience kits, kerrison rongeurs, spinal and general surgical retractors, dural repair kits, synthetic biologics, and a wide range of orthopedic pre-sterilized implants and devices.

Recor Medical Supports European Society of Cardiology’s Hypertension Guidelines

Record Medical notes the new guidelines, "2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension," have been published online and recommend the consideration of renal denervation (RDN) as a safe and effective treatment option for patients who have uncontrolled resistant hypertension or those that have uncontrolled hypertension with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, who express a preference to undergo RDN.

ConTIPI Medical Selects EVERSANA to Support U.S. Commercialization of Non-Surgical Medical Device ProVate for Women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse

EVERSANA is a leading provider of global commercial services to the life sciences industry, to support commercialization for the ProVate device in the United States to help women experiencing pelvic organ prolapse.