Vivid 4

Product Description

System Architecture

The Vivid 4 is a complete digital cardiovascular color flow Dopplerultrasound system. TruScan is GE’s system architecture that bringscomputer technology to ultrasound. Ultrasound data is digitallyacquired and stored in its raw state preserving the data integrity.TruScan architecture supports four components.

• TruAccess – Offers total data management by providing instantaccess to digital images stored in their original form via a digitalpatient archive

• Coded Harmonics – Produces excellent quality images from evendifficult-to-image patients

• VScan – Offers Versatile scanning capabilities for a wide range ofapplications with up to 18 transducers

• ComfortScan – Allows operators to personalize their workspace fortheir comfort

Data Acquisition

• Programmable system architecture

• 12-bit A/D converters per physical channel

• Application-specific channel architecture: the Vivid 3 employs a flexible digital beam-former architecture capable of using up to1024 channels depending on specific application requirements

• Application specific Digital Beam forming algorithm for each mode

• Supports Phased Array, Linear, Curved Array and non-imaging Pencil transducers

• Receive focusing, aperture, apodization and frequency response areall continuously variable as a function of depth

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Data Processing

• Echo data processing of phase, amplitudeand frequency

• Easily upgradeable for future expansions

• Digital raw data replay allows for imagepost processing and uncompromised offline measurement and analysis

Display

• High-resolution, (up to 1024 x 768 pixels),ultra-high-contrast, flicker-free SVGA 17"computer graphics monitor, with tilt and swivel

• Color resolution – 16.7 million colors available

• Scanner software supports 800 x 600 display resolution

• VCR input is played back through digitalreplay, allowing VCR images to be playedback, stopped, or looped during review,with auto-calibrate M&A capabilities

• Scanplane position indicator and probetemperature are displayed with all multi-plane TEE probes

• Selectable display configuration in M andDoppler modes: side-by-side or top-bottom,during live, digital replay and clipboardimage recall

• Display supports single image, side-by-side,or quad-screen image formats

Display Annotations

• Mechanical Index (MI)

• Thermal Index – application dependent

• Patient name/ID and additional information

• Hospital name

• Time/Date

• Trackball-driven annotation arrows

• Scanning parameters

• Application

• Probe Name

• VCR counter, cassette name and status

Tissue Imaging

General

• Variable transmit and Receive frequenciesfor resolution/penetration optimization

• Proprietary Confocal Imaging

• Variable Contour filtering for edge enhancement

• Depth range up to 30 cm – transducer specific

• Temporal frame interpolation generates highframe-rate display, providing smooth image

• Selectable Grayscale Parameters: Gain,Reject and Compress – can be adjusted inLive, digital replay or image clipboard recall

• Predefined, application specific, TGCcurves require minimal operator interaction

2D-mode

• Coded Octave Imaging – 2nd generationharmonic tissue imaging providingimproved lateral and contrast resolutionover conventional imaging. With up to sixlevels of harmonics, it features reducednoise and improved wall definition. COI gives excellent axial resolution withoutsacrificing frame rate, making it the tissuemodality of choice for all patient groups –probe and application dependent

• Confocal Imaging™ allows for multiple focalzones over range of view and a high vectordensity – probe dependent

• Sector tilt capability

• Frame Rate in excess of 200 fps – transducer, setting and application dependent

• Variable Image Width: a reduction eitherincreases frame rate or increases the number of focal zones while maintainingthe frame rate – application dependent

• L/R and Up/Down invert, in live, digitalreplay or image clipboard recall

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• Digital replay for retrospective review orautomatic looping of images, allowing foradjustment of parameters such as gain,color, reject, persistence and replay speed

• DDP – Variable Data Dependent Persistence

• 2D colorization maps are available on liveor recalled images

• Automatic Tissue Optimization (ATO):Single key stroke optimizes immediatelyand automatically different grayscale settings adjusted for the real time image

M-mode

• M-mode PRF 1kHz, all image dataacquired are combined to give high-qualityrecording regardless of display scroll speed

• Digital replay for retrospective review and analysis

• Different image display format and sizes,1/3, 2/3, top-bottom, side-by-side, or fulldisplay – can be adjusted in live or replay or image clipboard recall

• Selectable horizontal scroll speed: 2 to 8 seconds across display – can be adjusted in live or digital replay

Color Imaging

General

• Steerable Color Doppler available with allLinear Array transducers – maximum steering angle is transducer dependent

• Powerful digital signal processing, main-taining high frame rates of more than 100fps – application and transducer dependent

• Digital replay for retrospective review andanalysis of color loops, allowing for adjust-ment of parameters such as baseline shift,color maps, color priority and color gaineven on frozen/recalled data

• Variance maps to delineate disturbed flowand high velocity jets – user selectable inlive and recalled image

• Selection of color maps, providing variouscolor flow representations, selectable in liveor recalled images

Color Doppler Imaging

• Color Doppler frequency can be changedindependently from 2D for optimal flow

• Advanced Regression Wall Filter

• Trackball-controlled ROI position/size(width and depth)

• PRF settings – user selectable

• Color Invert: user selectable in live and digital replay

• Variable Color Baseline: user selectable in live and digital replay

• Color /Tissue Priority allows for removal of color data from the underlying tissueimage – selectable during live or digitalreplay. This provides reliable delineation of disturbed flows even across bright areas of the 2D-mode image

• Color Flash removal algorithm to reduceartifacts due to probe or tissue motion

• User-selectable Spatial Averaging for reduction of statistical uncertainty in thecolor velocity and variance estimates

• Selection of frame rates presets with option to choose lower F/R with very high sensitivity, medium F/R and super high F/R

• Color Sample Volume control to best optimize between color pixel size and sensitivity

Color Angio

(Color Flow-Intensity Imaging)

• Designed for visualization of small vesselswith increased sensitivity utilizing Dopplerenergy display as compared to standardcolor flow

• Selection of various intensity maps

Directional Angio

• Selection of directional-angio maps providing directional color information

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Color M-Mode

• Available for Color Flow mode

• Variable ROI size – user-selectable

• Selectable horizontal scroll speed: 3 to 8 seconds across display – can be adjusted during live, digital replay or image clipboard recall

• Real-time 2D image while in color M-mode

• Digital replay for retrospective review ofColor M-mode data allowing for adjustmentof parameters such as Color Priority, LowVelocity Reject, Color Maps, and Color Gaineven on frozen data

• User-selectable Line Smoothing and Time Averaging

Spectral Doppler

General

• Operates in PW, HPRF, and CW modes

• Steerable Doppler available with all LinearArray transducers

• Selectable Doppler frequency

• Flexible spectrum analysis with an equivalent FFT rate of 0.2 ms

• Dynamic Gain Compensation for display offlows with varying signal strengths over thecardiac cycle and improved ease-of-use

• Dynamic Reject gives consistent suppression of background – user selectable, in real time, digital replay or image clipboard recall

• Digital replay for retrospective review ofspectral Doppler raw-data including audio,allowing full operation with the followingcontrols: Gain, Dynamic-range, Base LineShift, Sweep Time, Angle correction andColor map selection

• Different image display format and sizes,1/3, 2/3, top-bottom, side-by-side, or fulldisplay – can be adjusted in live or replayor image clipboard recall

• Selectable horizontal scroll speed: 1 to 8seconds across display – can be adjusted in live or digital replay

• User adjustable baseline shift – in live, digital replay and image clipboard recall

• Adjustable velocity scale

• Angle correction available – in live, digital replay and image clipboard recall

• Stereo audio speakers mounted in the front panel

PW/HPRF and CW Doppler

• Adjustable sample volume size of 1-20 mm (transducer dependent)

• Maximum sample volume depth 30 cm

• Automatic HPRF Doppler maintains its sensitivity for all depths and with the highest PRFs

• Smart Doppler processing maintains 60-degree angle automatically when using linear probe

• Simultaneous PW Duplex/Triplex capability,probe and application-dependent

• Highly sensitive steerable CW available with all phased array and pencil probes

Tissue Doppler Imaging

• Myocardial PW Doppler provides real-timeDoppler spectral information for specifiedmyocardial motion, allowing for instanta-neous tissue velocity measurement

Tissue Tracking Imaging

• Real-time display of the time integral of TVI for display of myocardial systolic displacement

• Myocardial displacement is calculated and displayed as a color-coded overlay onthe 2D image – different colors representdifferent displacement ranges

• Harmonic imaging with 6 frequency levelsis available for tissue tracking

• Myocardial Tissue Velocity Imaging (TVI)with color overlay on tissue image

• The velocity or displacement of all myocardial segments after entire heart cycle can be displayed in one single image4

• Tissue color overlay can be removed toshow just the 2D image, still retaining thetissue displacement or velocity information

Physiological Traces

• Simultaneous display of traces: ECG andPhono (Heart Sound Microphone option)

• ECG 3-leads

• External ECG connection

• User-adjustable, variable gain and traceposition control

• Automatic QRS complex detection

Measurements & AnalysisPrograms

• Cardiac calculation package includingextensive measurements, and display of multiple repeated measurements – user configurable

• Vascular measurements package includesspecific studies, worksheets and reports for: Carotid, Upper and Lower Extremities,Arteries and Veins, Renal, Abdominal, AortoIliac, Trans-Cranial Doppler (TCD) and more

• Measurements assignable to worksheet and report

• Flexible, configurable worksheet

• Doppler Auto Trace Function with automatic calculations

• Possibility of performing measurements and analyses on video playback with automatic calibration

• Configurable M&A parameters (content & order)

• User-defined parameters can be added

• OB package (option) for fetal growth analysis containing more than 60 biometry tables and dedicated reports

• GYN package for ovary and uterus measurements and reporting

• Hip-joint angle measurement

Reports

• User-Selectable report templates (Cardiac, Vascular, Stress, OB, GYN)

• Storage and retrieval of report in Archive

• Printable on inkjet printer

• Ability to export Report in PDF format

• Accepts report templates generated by the Report Designer of EchoPAC PC

User Interface

• Ergonomic design with left / right swivel andup/down mobility of keyboard and monitorpermitting both sitting/standing operation

• Intuitive keyboard layout

• Interactive keyboard task lighting

• Adjustable alphanumeric keyboard backlighting

• Front Panel with assignable keys and push buttons for primary controls – application specific

• Application-specific programmable controlsavailable through “soft keys” and rotarieswith dynamic soft menu displays

• Overall gain for 2D-mode, Active Gain foractive operating mode, Depth and Zoom on dedicated rotaries

• Fully programmable user presets forprobe/application default settings – all user-controlled parameters, including allimaging modes parameters and geometriesare saved within the user preset

• Configurable (optional) password-securedarchive data protection

• User Groups allow generation and tailoringof different application sets for differentgroups (up to five groups of users)

• Multiple language support

• Configurable three-pedal footswitch

Transducers

• Electronic selection between three solid-state and one stand-alone Doppler connectors

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Biopsy Bracket Support (Option)

• On-screen biopsy Guide-Line, guide-Zoneand depth measure for “Civco” biopsybracket, supporting probe models C358 (multi-angle bracket), 10L & 12L(fixed-angle bracket)

Cine Memory

• High-fidelity loops and images may be reviewed by scrolling or by runningcineloops

• TruScan architecture offers broad post-processing capabilities of recalledimages and loops, allowing manipulation of parameters such as: gain, baseline, color maps, sweep speeds, audio gain, and cine speed

• “Image Clipboard” for thumbnail storageand review of saved images and loops

• Trackball-controlled cine review

• Doppler audio playback

• Cine Replay control over loop from VCR playback

PROBE FREQUENCY RANGE CATALOG #

Phased Array Sector Probes

ComfortScan 3S (Sector) 1.5 – 3.6 MHz H4701SZ

ComfortScan 5S (Sector) 2.0 – 5.0 MHz H40422LA

ComfortScan 7S (Sector) 3.1 – 8.0 MHz H40422LB

10S (Sector) 4.0 – 10.0 MHz H4901PC

Convex (Curved) Array Probes

C358 2.0 – 5.7 MHz H40212LC

C721 4.0 – 10.0 MHz H40602LM

Linear Array Probes

7L 3.6 – 10.0 MHz H40412LF

10L 4.0 – 10.0 MHz H40412LG

12L 5.0 – 13.3 MHz H40412LH

PAMPTE (Phased Array Multiplane Transesophageal Probes)

6T (TEE) 2.2 – 8.0 MHz H45001YD

9T (TEE) 4.0 – 10.0 MHz H45521DY

P509 (TEE) 2.9 – 6.7 MHz H44201TG

Doppler Probes

P2D (CW) 2.0 MHz H4830JE

P6D (CW) 6.0 MHz H4830JG

Endocavity Probe

E721 4.0 – 10.0 MHz H40602LN

Intraoperative Probes

i739 4.0 – 10.0 MHz H40212LF

t739 4.0 – 10.0 MHz H4012LM

i8L 5.0 – 10.0 MHz H45511NW

i13L 5.0 – 13.3 MHz H45511NT

Adapter for System FiVe/Vivid Five

5MHz PAMPTE and 6Tv H45001YF

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Digital Patient Archive

EchoPAC 4 with CD-RW

• Integrated database for archiving of images and cine loops with measurementsand reports

• Easy retrieval of stored data for review,comparison and editing. Capabilitiesinclude: extensive post-processing, re-measurement, analysis, generation of new reports, etc.

• Backup on CD-RW or a MOD (option)

• Ability to export images in various standardformats such as: AVI, JPEG, MPEG,DICOM, BMP, etc.

MPEGvue

• Using MPEGVue, exams may be stored onto CD-RW together with integratedMPEG-4 viewer

• The CDs thus generated may be reviewedon any PC running Windows ’98, 2000 or XP

Fast Power-up

Plug-and-Scan (UPS)

• Fast boot-up following unplugging frompower source for up to 30 minutes

Options

Stress Echo (option)

• Offers Pharmaceutical, exercise and bicycle stress exam protocols with user configurable stress template

• Image acquisition, review, wall-segmentscoring and reporting

• Stress Exercise with more than two minutes of raw data continuous capture

• Possibility of extensive post-processing of images under review

• “SmartStress” function, available on pharmaceutical or bicycle protocols,remembers 2D image settings for differentscan planes and re-adjusts automaticallysetting for the next stress level

DICOM Media Creator (Option)

• DICOM 3.0 export to MOD media

• Easy selection of specific patient or groupof patients for DICOM storage/export

DICOM Network Connectivity(option)

Connection to DICOM server supports the following services:

• DICOM Modality Worklist

• DICOM Storage

• DICOM Modality Performed Procedure Step(MPPS)

• DICOM Storage Commitment

• DICOM Verification

• DICOM Print support:

- Single-print from scanning mode

- Batch-print via exam-export mode

- Multi-image-size support

EchoNet Connectivity (Option)

• Offers direct network connection to the EchoPAC Review Station and theEchoNet Server

OB Measurements & Analysis(option)

• Measurements and calculations derivedfrom ultrasound images are ready for useupon selection of OB application

• The user may choose to measure and calculate fetal growth parameters based on European, American or Asian methods charts

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• The package supports the ability to selectbetween two methods of operation:

- Measure then assign parameter

- Assign then measure parameter

• Twins Measurements and calculations support

• Graphical developmental chart plotting current fetal age can be activated throughthe Worksheet and stored to Archive

Heart Sound Microphone (option)

• Allows recording of phono cardiogram during scanning

Advanced Options

Anatomical M-mode (option)

• M-mode cursor can be optimized for a specific anatomy and its origin – not limited to transducer position

• Available in 2D and Color Flow modes

• Full M&A capability as used for conventional M-mode

• Available in digital replay or stored loopsor from image clipboard

• Available in Stress protocol

FlexiView (option)

• OR monitoring function

• Simultaneous viewing of synchronized livescan and stored reference cineloops withquad view or split-screen display

• User-configured time incremental cineloop storage

Excel Export (option)

• Allows export of all archived measurementand textual patient information in standardMicrosoft Excel files

• Allow export of patient-list that were examined between defined dates

HL-7 License (option)

• Vivid HL7 Gateway: HIS integration utilizing HL7 ADT and Order HL7 Interface

- Patient and Order information imported from the HIS to the GE ultrasound system

- Full list search support

- Specific facility location identified for WAN

• Report HL7 Interface

- Export patient and exam data fromEchoPAC PC to the HIS

- One click to send the report to the HIS

- Reports viewed in a CHM or PDF format

Advanced 3D (option)

• “FreeScan” sensor-less package byEchotech – the 3D reconstruction does not require any additional attachments or hardware

• Parallel and sweep acquisition from 2D-mode and color (CFM/Power-Angio)

• Reconstruction of any plane within a stored data set

• 3D Angio: reconstruction of 3D image ofvessels based on color flow information

• The reconstructed vasculature volume-of-interest can be post-processed and rotatedin all directions to enhance the 3D view

• The final 3D reconstruction can be stored to Archive as a 3D loop for future review/processing

• 2D-mode information overlaid on 3D mode

• Multimedia support (export to BMP, MPEGand AVI)

• Photorealistic surface rendering of fetal faces

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Peripherals (options)

• On-board storage of peripherals

• B/W Thermal Printer

- Sony UP-895 MDW – H45002PT

• Color Thermal Printer

- Sony UP-21 (PAL) – H45001PY

- Sony UP-2950 MD (NTSC) – H45001CL

• S-VHS Video Cassette Recorder

- Sony SVO-9500 MDP2 (PAL) H45001PA

- Sony SVO-9500 MD2 (NTSC) H45001PB

• Ink Jet Printer

- HP6122 – H45011PM

• Integrated VCR controls for Sony SVO-9500-MD/MDP

• Hard-copy devices: Any video-based deviceusing Composite, S-Video or RGB formatPAL or NTSC video

Cart

• Low rolling resistance casters

• Swivel lock and brakes on front casters

• Left / right swivel and height-adjusted keyboard

Safety

Patient safety standard meet:

• IEC 60601-1

• European CE mark

• UL Classified (UL 2601-1)

• UL c CSA 22.2 No. 60601.1

Electrical Power

• 800 W (without peripherals)

• 50/60 Hz

• 100-120 VAC

• 220-240 VAC

SIZE METRIC IMPERIAL

Height: Minimum 139 cm 54.7 inches

Height: Maximum 153 cm 60.2 inches

Width: 64 cm 25.2 inches

Depth: 115 cm 45.3 inches

Weight (approx) 170 kg 375 pounds

Physical Dimensions

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