Description
Technical Specifications
Control Panel
- Simple, intuitive user interface with home-base design minimizes repetitive hand motions and enables motor-memory learning
- Floating control panel allows a wide range of adjustment for operator comfort in standing and sitting positions
- Left/Right swivel articulation: ± 38º
- Vertical articulation: 85-100 cm
- System control panel illumination via tri-color backlighting
- 12-inch touch screen (resolution 1280 x 800)
- Laser-optical trackball for higher sensitivity
- Pull-out keyboard
- Optional integrated gel warmer
Dual-Option Keyboard
- Pull-out keyboard
- Touch screen keyboard
Ergonomics
- Laser-optical trackball
- Context sensitive: Dynamic back lighting
- Redesigned: Heads-up display
- Intuitively organized user interface
- 40% fewer tactile keys
- 20% fewer keys in home-base
- Vertical articulation: 85-100 cm
- Left/Right swivel articulation: ± 38°
- Dedicated key for Delete/Undo
- Repositioned freeze button for improved accessibility
- Ergonomic, tactile button designs
- Smart-adaptive annotations
- Smart-intuitive body markers and pictograms
- Robust selection for protocols
- Dual-option keyboard:
- Conventional pull-out keyboard
- Touch screen keyboard
- Supports HELX Evolution with Touch Control software level VD10A and above
Fully Articulated Flat Panel Display
- 21.5“ full HD 1080P, flat panel liquid crystal display (LCD) with LED backlighting and wide-angle IPS (in-plane switching) technology
- High contrast ratio 800 : 1
- Supports HELX Evolution with Touch Control screen saver
- Supports HELX Evolution with Touch Control
- Software Level VD10A and above
- Variable monitor positioning adjustment (height, swivel, tilt)
- Range of height: (upright FPD) 154-138 cm (60.6-53.3 in)
- Swivel: ± 80º
- Tilt: + 60º forward, – 10º back
- Extended wide-angle viewing angle: ± 178º
- Folds down for transport
- Minimum fold-down system height: 125 cm (49.2 in)
- Default brightness: 170 cd/m2
- Response time: 7 ms
Articulating Arm
- Allows monitor transition for optimal ergonomic positioning toward, away and side-to-side
- Articulation independent of system and control panel
- Left/Right swivel articulation: ± 80º in either direction
- Horizontal articulation: Up to 30 cm
- Vertical articulation: Up to 15 cm
- Default locking position for safe transport
Touch Screen
- LCD (12.1” WXGA, 16:10) touch panel
- Screen resolution: 1280 x 800
- Dot pitch: 0.204 mm x 0.204 mm-USB 2.0 interface with host system
- Video over USB connectivity
- 2 USB ports
- 16:10 aspect ratio
- Supports HELX Evolution with Touch Control screen saver
- Supports HELX Evolution with Touch Control software level VD10A and above
Imaging Modes
- 2D and Native™ tissue harmonic imaging (THI)
- 3D/4D imaging
- Color Doppler velocity
- Color Doppler energy
- Color M-mode and tissue harmonic imaging (THI)
- M-mode and color Doppler velocity
- Anatomical M-mode
- PW and CW Doppler
Standard Options
- Advanced SieClear™ spatial compounding
- Advanced SieClear spatial compounding in color and Power Doppler (software level VC30 and above)
- Clarify™ vascular enhancement (VE) technology
- eSieImage™ multiparametric optimization (software level VC30B and above)
- Dynamic TCE™ tissue contrast enhancement (DTCE)
- Wireless DICOM reporting (software level VC30 and above)
- Enhanced DTC for SieScape™ panoramic imaging and 3D, 4D imaging
- SieScape panoramic imaging
- Color SieScape™ panoramic imaging
- Multi-modality Review (software level VC25 and above)
- Nuance PowerScribe® 360 | Reporting
- Measurement export
- Custom Tissue Imaging (software level VC31 and above)
Configurable Options
- 3-Scape™ real-time 3D imaging
- Advanced fourSight™ technology
- Axius™ direct ultrasound research interface
- Cadence™ contrast harmonic imaging technology (CHI) (software level VC30 and above)*
- Cadence™ contrast pulse sequencing technology (CPS) (software level VC30 and above)*
- Cadence™ agent detection imaging technology
- Contrast Dynamics™ software*
- DTI™ Doppler tissue imaging capability
- eSieScan™ workflow protocols
- eSie Touch™ elasticity imaging
- fourSight™ 4D transducer technology
- syngo® Arterial Health Package (AHP)**
- syngo® Auto OB measurements
- syngo® Auto Left Heart (Auto LH)
- syngo® eSieCalcs™ native tracing software
- syngo® Velocity Vector Imaging™ technology
- Virtual Touch™ imaging
- Virtual Touch™ quantification
- Virtual Touch™ IQ
- eSieFusion™ imaging
- eSie Guide needle tracking
- Bracco VueBox™ Data Transfer
Image Processing
- Transmit frequency: Up to 7 frequencies
- 2D Gain: – 20 to + 20 dB in 1 dB increments
- Display dynamic range: 30-90 dB
- Depth gain compensation: 8 controls
- Maps: Up to 12 maps
- Tint maps: Up to 17 B-mode tint maps and 7 Cadence CPS Capture tint maps
- Persistence: 5 levels
- Edge enhancement: 5 levels
- Space/Time: 4 levels
- DTO™ dynamic tissue optimization technology: 4 levels (for cardiac option)
- Image knob presets: Up to 6 customizable factory image presets per exam preset
Image Display Formats
- Full, dual, live-dual and dual-screen formats
- Image depth maximum up to 30 cm in 0.5-1.0 cm increments
- Vector™ wide-view imaging format: Selectable field-of-view from 15 to 90º
- Trapezoid: Selectable field of view up to 60º on linear transducers
- Steerable linear: Variable steering angles for 2D, color and Doppler modes
- Maximum steering angle in color and spectral Doppler: 20º
- Beta angle viewing: Beam steering available on 9EVF4 transducer
- Curved: Selectable field of view from 15º-174º, in 1º increments, depending on transducer
- Zoom with image pan
- Available on live, frozen, cine, dual screen images
- Preserves full image resolution within the zoom region of interest (ROI)
- Up to 10X zoom
- HD Zoom: Region of Interest (ROI) with increased detail resolution and frame rate, compatible with color Doppler and Advanced SieClear spatial compounding
- On-screen timer
Acoustic Output Management
- On-screen acoustic power indicator (AIUM/NEMA output display standard)
- Display of power output: %, MI, TIC, TIS/TIB, TIF