SonoSite C1.9 PLUS, Service Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction 1
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Introduction
Before servicing the SonoSite ultrasound system, please read the information in this
manual. This text applies to SonoSite ultrasound system products manufactured after
April 27, 2001. Please find service information about products manufactured before
April 27, 2001 in
C1.51 Ultrasound System Service Manual (P00715) and C1.75
Ultrasound System Service Manual (P01118) .
1.1 About the System
The SonoSite system has various configurations and features. All are described in
this manual but not every option may apply to your system. System features are
dependent on your system configuration, transducer and exam type.
The SonoSite system is a portable, software-controlled, ultrasound system. It has an
all-digital architecture. It is used to acquire and display high-resolution, real-time,
2D, Color Power Doppler (CPD), PowerMap
™
(PM) Directional Color Power
Doppler (DCPD), Tissue Harmonic Imaging (THI), M-mode and Pulsed Wave (PW)
Doppler ultrasound images. The system has electrocardiography (ECG), cine
review, image zoom, labeling, biopsy, measurements and calculations, serial port
connection for image transfer, image storage and review, printing and recording
capabilities. The system setup also has a selection to support optical character
recognition (OCR) of the English character set for time, date, patient name, and
patient identification. The OCR screen characters are optimized for use with the ALI
NewPORT DICOM image capture station peripheral available from ALI. For more
information about the ALI NewPORT 2.1, refer to the
ALI NewPORT 2.1 Image
Capture Station User’s Guide .
Currently, the system supports the following broadband transducers:
•
C60/5-2 MHz 60-mm curved array
• C15/4-2 MHz 15-mm micro-curved array
• C11/7-4 MHz 11-mm micro-curved array
• ICT/7-4 MHz 11-mm intracavitary
• L38/10-5 MHz 38-mm linear array