Madeena Digital Radiography for Indonesia

Thirty years of research has finally succeeded in developing an Indonesian digital radiography instrument. Gede Bayu Suparta and his team launched the Madeena, an X-ray fluorescence digital radiography.

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Gede Bayu Suparta

Thirty years of research has finally succeeded in developing an Indonesian digital radiography instrument. In early November, Gede Bayu Suparta, 54, and his team launched the Madeena, an X-ray fluorescence digital radiography (XRF digital radiograph; RDSF in Indonesian) imaging device in Yogyakarta.

Madeena is an acronym for “made in Indonesia” and affirms that the digital radiography device, a health analysis and diagnostic instrument, is truly a domestic product. So far, Bayu said, the digital radiography instruments that had been used in Indonesia were generally imported and expensive.