Kodak DirectView CR 500 System, User Manual

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Overview
Product Description
The Kodak DirectView CR 500 System is a tabletop Computed Radiology (CR)
System. It lets you scan exposed flexible phosphor screens, process the
resulting images, and route these images to the appropriate destinations via a
10Base T or 100Base T Ethernet network. The system communicates with
DICOM compatible printers, CD/DVD storage, workstations, and archives.
The CR 500 System incorporates a special cassette/phosphor screen handling
system that automatically removes the screen from the cassette, scans and
erases the screen, and then returns the screen to the cassette for reuse.
Special cassettes designed specifically for the CR 500 System are required.
CAUTION
:
Do not use cassettes from any other system. They will not work
with the CR 500 System.
You can use the CR 500 System to:
• Read images, generated by conventional X-ray generators, from a storage
phosphor screen.
• Modify images and change image orientation.
• Enter examination and patient information using the Kodak DirectView
Remote Operations Panel (ROP), the Remote Patient Data Entry Software
(RPDES) loaded on a networked computer, the bar code scanner, the
keyboard, or receive patient information from a HIS/RIS system.
• Correct erroneous patient or examination information.
• Store images that have incomplete patient or study data until the
required data is added and the image is accepted.
• Create collections of related images and data (a Study).
• Send exams to DICOM storage devices, physicians’ diagnostic viewing
stations, DICOM laser imagers, and writable CD/DVD storage.