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Custom Plastic Fabrication for Medical Imaging Equipment

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    Trust HP Manufacturing for Your High-Performance, Precision-Machined Medical Imaging Components

    Medical imaging equipment such as MRI machines, CT scanners, ultrasound devices and X-ray machines require high-quality plastic components to ensure their functionality, durability and patient comfort. HP Manufacturing’s experience in plastic fabrication and machining makes it the perfect partner for the custom-designed, precision-machined medical imaging components.

    Let Our Expertise in Plastics Be Your Competitive Advantage

    Plastics are widely used in this type of equipment because of its cost-effectiveness, strength, ease of fabrication, chemical resistance and versatility. Acrylics in particular lend themselves well to the portability and ease of use needed for medical imaging equipment systems. You’ll find plastics both inside and outside medical imaging systems, from housings and casings to patient positioning devices to connectors/cabling to medical devices known as phantoms.

    Working with acrylics and other specialized plastics to create medical imaging components requires expertise and knowledge of specialized machining techniques. Our technicians and engineers at HP Manufacturing have the experience to custom produce your performance plastic parts and assemblies.

    Where other companies struggle with tight tolerances, we embrace them. While some plastic fabricators deliver products with scratches, poor assembly or uneven joints, our quality standards have been honed by our 80+ years of experience. With HP Manufacturing, you can rely on our workmanship, our on-time deliveries, and our on-budget performance.

    Finding a company that partners with you from quoting to delivery is hard to find. We have chosen HP Manufacturing for our machined portfolio for over 15 years because they always deliver and offer transparency throughout every stage, not leaving us in the dark like others.
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    Depend on HP Manufacturing for Your Custom Phantom Production

    HP Manufacturing is one of the country’s leading plastic fabricators of phantoms for medical imaging manufacturers.

    A phantom is a device that is scanned or imaged by the system to evaluate, analyze or calibrate the system’s performance. It’s designed to mimic human tissues and organs in terms of their size, shape and density. Phantoms respond to radiation or sound waves in a similar way to the body, allowing medical professionals to see how the imaging device will perform when used on a patient.

    Acrylic plastic over time has emerged as the optimum performance plastic material to construct these complex medical devices. Acrylics have radiological transparency, allowing X-rays, computed tomography (CT) and other forms of radiation to pass through without significant absorption or scattering. You get clear and consistent imaging results with acrylic phantoms. In addition to transparency, acrylic properties provide a variety of advantages that make it ideal for this application:

    • It is a rigid yet lightweight material that is easily shaped into different forms to mimic various anatomical structures, even those with complex geometries
    • Its strength and durability enable long-term usage without degrading or warping over time.
    • Its smooth surface allows for the easy cleaning and maintenance that’s critical to sanitary medical environments
    • Acrylic can be machined, drilled or even laser cut to exact specifications, and elements in a phantom device can be bonded together with commercially available solvents
    • Compared to other performance plastic materials, acrylic is relatively inexpensive

    HP Manufacturing has the expertise and specialized knowledge to successfully work with acrylics. Machining acrylics demands the use of sharp tools, controlled speed and feed rates, proper bonding techniques and precise finishing procedures. Our highly trained and experienced engineers possess extensive knowledge in all phases of plastics development from conception through product application and assembly, making us the leading choice for plastic fabrication and machining.

    close up of water phantom manufactured by HP Manufacturing
    A CT medical imaging “phantom” component fabricated out of acrylic due to the nature of construction, sturdiness and its ability to cement joints well.

    Let’s Talk About Your Next Medical Imaging Project

    While medical imaging devices are complex, HP’s experience in plastic fabrication and machining allows us to construct these devices to the tight tolerances required by medical imaging manufacturers. Contact us to learn more about how HP Manufacturing can contribute to the success of your next medical imaging or device project.

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