What are the latest advances or significant changes in X-ray and in the X-ray market in the past year? "There has been a greater utilization of digital flat-panel X-ray receptors and the availability from an increased number of vendors has occurred. In addition, the use and availability of wireless digital flat-panel detectors has increased markedly," said Michael Yester, Ph.D., head of the physics and engineering division of the department of radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.