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Product Data Sheet – rev 4.2
July 4th 2003
Page 14
LightSpeed
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With Xtream
CT Scanner System
GE Medical Systems-America
Milwaukee, USA - Fax: 1 414 544 3384
GE Medical Systems-Asia:
Tokyo, Japan - Fax: 81 425 85 5490
Hong Kong - Fax: 852 2559 3588
GE Medical Systems-Europe
Peripherals:
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Heat Storage Capacity: 6.3 MHU
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16 x 1.25 mm (uses all 24 rows)
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16 x 0.625 mm (uses center 16 rows )
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Heat Dissipation:
Total of 254 GB system:
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Anode (max) 840 KHU/min
70% geometric efficiency; 98% absorption
efficiency.
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Casing (cont) 300 KHU/min
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Main system (host) disk drive:
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Tube Unit: 6.9 kW continuous for 10
minutes
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High Performance Drive
Data Acquisition System
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36 GB, 3.5 inch form factor
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Dual Focal Spots:
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15,000 RPM
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Small Focal Spot:
12,288 available input channels.
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Ultra320 SCSI interface
0.7 mm (W) x 0.6 mm (L) nominal
value
(IEC 336/93)
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Assigned to applications software and
image files
1,640 Hz maximum sample rate.
Effective analog to digital conversion range
greater than two million to one.
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2 system disk drives (Image Disk)
0.9 mm (W) x 0.7 mm (L) traditional
methodology
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High Performance Drive
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73 GB, 3.5 inch form factor each.
Scan/Control Unit
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15,000 RPM
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Large Focal Spot:
0.9 mm (W) x 0.9 mm (L) nominal
value
(IEC 336/93)
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Ultra320 SCSI interface
Located in base of Operator Console.
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Assigned to image files only
- 250,000 uncompressed 512 images
1.2 mm (W) x 1.2 mm (L)
traditional methodology
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Scan data disk drive:
Host Computer
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High Performance Drive
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36 GB, 3.5 inch form factor
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Maximum Power: 53.2 kW
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Dual SMP 2.66.GHz Intel Xeon processors
with 512KB L2 cache.
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UltraSCSI interface
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Beam collimated to 55° fan angle.
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Intel Hyper-threading technology.
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Scan data disk drive:
Average time to replace tube: < 10 hours
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High Performance Drive
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2GB DDR266 Dual Channel Memory with a
throughput of 4.2GB/sec
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36 GB, 3.5 inch form factor
High Voltage Generation
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UltraSCSI interface
Image Processor:
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High-frequency on-board generator.
Continuous operation during scan.
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Standard
MOD
drive:
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Nvidia Quadro4 980XGL AGP 8X graphics
with 128MB Memory
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Magnetic Optical Disk Drive
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53.2 kW output power.
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Erasable, rewritable media
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kVp: 80, 100, 120, 140
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Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) Clock
300Mhz
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2.3 GB, 3.5 inch form factor
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mA: 10 to 440 mA, 5 mA increments
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Assigned to DICOM 3.0 format image
file.
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Graphics Memory Clock 325Mhz
Maximum mA for each kVp selection:
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Stores 4,700 lossless JPEG compressed
512 image files per side
Image Reconstruction Engine
(GRE)
KVp Max
mA
80 400
100 420
120 440
140 380
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Off-line retrieval of image. Images may
be viewed as soon as they are restored
from MOD
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Custom-designed special purpose
CT Image Generator
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DVD Ram
:
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Custom CT back projection hardware
accelerates 2D & 3D back projection.
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4.7 GB per side, 5.25" half height form
factor
HiLight Matrix II Detector:
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Intel Hyper-threading Technology.
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Transfer rate 2.7MB/sec
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32-bit floating point data format
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Assigned to scan data file and protocol
file storage/retrieval.
21,888 individual elements composed by: 8
rows of 1.25 mm thickness and 16 rows of
0.625 mm thickness, each containing 888
active patient elements; 24 reference
elements.
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2GB DDR226 ECC Dual Channel
Memory Standard (4.2 GB/sec).
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Color monitors
:
Software Architecture:
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21 inch diagonal width
4 typical modes of data output:
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1280 x 1024 dot resolution
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Software architecture based on industry
standards and client-server design
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8 x 1.25 mm (uses center 16 rows)
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Non-interlaced, flicker-free presentation
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8 x 2.5 mm (uses all 24 rows)
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76 kHz Horizontal deflection frequency
* Option
