4-10 Exam Preparation
4.5
Pause & Continue an Exam
4.5.1
Pause an Exam
Sometimes, you have to stop an uncompleted exam due to some special causes.When the exam is
paused, the system can begin other exams.
1. Tap [Information] on the touch screen to enter the patient information page.
2. Click [Pause Exam].
If the system is powered off during scanning, the exam status turns "paused" after the system restart.
When an exam is paused, the system will:
1. Saves the exam-related images, reports and measurement data, modifies the status as
“Paused”.
2. Save the exam information, including report, imaging mode, exam mode, image parameters,
operation mode, and imaging/measurement data and so on.
4.5.2
End an Exam
Before examining a new patient, press <End Exam> to end the exam of the previous patient, update the
patient ID and information, to avoid mixing data of the next new patient.
To end an exam, you can do one of the following:
Tap [End Exam] on the touch screen to finish the current exam.
Click [New Patient] on the Patient Info screen to end the last patient exam and clear the patient
information.
Click [New Exam] on the Patient Info screen (or iStation screen, or Review screen) to end the
last exam and clear the exam data.
