SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

From the operator’s point of view

 The ECLOS CT System

Scanner
(Gantry)

PHS

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 The ECLOS CT System
Main Monitor (CPU1) TeraRecon
Touch Screen Monitor
(CPU0)

Image
Processing
Unit

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ECLOS System Components

• 1 Circuit Breaker Panel

• Gantry (Scanner)
• Patient Handling System
• 3 Emergency Stop Buttons
• X-Ray Control Unit (Cabinet)
• Image Processing Unit

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ENVIRONMENTAL SEPCIFICATIONS
• Ambient scan room temperature:
• 10° C to 28° C
• 50° F to 82.4° F
• Ambient control room temperature:
• 20° C to 28° C
• 68° F to 82.4° F
• Relative room humidity:
• 35% to 80%, non-condensing
• Ambient storage temperature:
• -5° C to 33° C
• 23° F to 91° F
• Relative storage humidity:
• 35% to 80%, non-condensing
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 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
• Scanning System:
• Continuous rotate system
• Rotate / Rotate (Tube and Detectors both rotate)
• Scan (Rotation) Time:
• 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 seconds
• Effective Field of View:
• 20 mm to 500 mm, variable in 1 mm steps
• Slice thickness:
• 0.625, 1.25, 1.5, 3.75, 5.0, 7.5, 10 mm
• Number of slices:
• 16 slices per rotation
• Gantry Tilt Angle:
• +25o
• Reconstruction Speed:
• 0.2 seconds per image
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 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
• X-Ray Generator and Tube:
• Continuous X-Ray (high frequency inverter control)
• Maximum Generator Power: 42kW
• Continuous Generator Power: 2.5KW
• Tube Current: 10 to 350 mA
• Tube Voltages: 100kV, 120kV, 130kV
• Tube Heat Storage Capacity: 5.0 MHU
• Beam Shape: 51 degree fan beam
• Large focal spot: 1.2 mm
• Small focal spot: 0.7 mm
• Anode Maximum Cooling Rate: 748 KHU/min
• Gantry Opening:
• 700 mm
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 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
• Detector:
• Type: 28 Solid state Gd2O2S (ceramic) modules
• Each module is 32 X 24
• Number of Elements: 21,120 (880 X 24)
• Number of Detector Outputs: 14,080 channels (880 X 16)
• Central Image Processing Unit:
• Measurement system:
• Ricoh, FB6GF-LS-10 motherboard (Celeron, 2.0GHz)
• >300GB SATA Hard Disk (raw image data)
• CD-ROM - >40X (Loading Software Only)
• >128MB of RAM (DIMM)
• 100Base-TX (on motherboard)
• Touchscreen Interface
• Analog R, G, B
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 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS

• Central Image Processing Unit (continued):

• Image Processing System:
• Ricoh, FB6GF-LS-10 motherboard (PIV, >2.4GHz)
• >250GB SATA Hard Disk (reconstructed data)
• 2 Hard Disks – Level 1 RAID
• DVD-RAM Drive - >3X (Software/Archiving)
• 2GB of RAM (DIMM)
• 100Base-TX (on motherboard)
• External NIC Card (DICOM I/F)
• Analog R, G, B
• 19” monitor

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 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
Physical Dimensions
Unit Mass (kg)
Width Depth Height
Scanner 1,980 mm 889 mm 1,854 mm 1,320 kg
78.00" 35.00" 73.00" 2910 lbs
PHS 635 mm 2743 mm 1,000 mm 430 kg
25.00" 108.00" 39.37" 948 lbs
IPU
Main Unit 381 mm 711 mm 610 mm 83.91 kg
15.00" 28.00" 24.00" 175.0 lbs
Monitor 500 mm 550 mm 500 8.16 kg
19.68" 21.65" 19.68" 18.0 lbs
Touch Panel 305 mm 152 mm 305 mm 3.18 kg
12.00" 6.00" 12.00" 7.00 lbs
Intercom Box 203 mm 203 mm 76 mm 1.36 kg
8.00" 8.00" 3.00" 3.00 lbs
X-Ray Control Unit 900 mm 565 mm 1750 mm 330.22 kg
36.00" 23.00" 69.00" 728.00 lbs
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MAIN CIRCUIT BREAKER PANEL

• System requires 208 VAC,

three phase
• Main cut off for system power
• No phase loss detection

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 GANTRY OVERVIEW
Emergency
Microphone
Stop Button
(1 more in back)

Left Right
Operation Operation
Panel Panel

Hold Breath
Breathe
Indicator
(1 more in back)

Patient
Positioning
Touch Switch Lasers
(1 more in back)
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 HOLD BREATH INDICATORS

• Green = When lit indicates patient can breathe

• Red = When lit indicates patient should hold breath
• Audio indicator can also be activated at the IP
• Another indicator on the back of the gantry
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 TOUCH SWITCHES
Two on the front
of the gantry

One on the front

of the gantry

• Only function while the gantry or table is moving

• If active stops all movement and X-Ray generation
• When active - Operation Panel “Reset” switch and
“Down” switch LEDs flash
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 MICROPHONE

• One on the front and back of the CT gantry

• Allows patient to talk with operator in control room
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 GANTRY OPERATION PANELS

• Gives the operator access to table movement

• Displays current tilt position and horizontal/vertical
position of the table
• Movement buttons must be “back lit” before active
• Gives the operator access to turn on lasers
• LEDs indicating: X-Rays, Shutter Scan, E-Stop
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 GANTRY OPERATION PANELS

Left Display Panel Right Panel Display

• If the “Reset” and “Table Down” switches are

flashing it means the Touch Switch is active
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 GANTRY OPERATION PANELS
BUTTON DESCRIPTION
PRESET2 TABLE FORWARD
Moves table to Chest Moves table in towards
Scan position (Defined) the bore

TABLE FAST SPEED

PRESET1 Moves table in/out at
Moves table to Head fast speed
Scan position (Defined)
TABLE BACKWARD
HOME Moves table back away
Moves table all the way from the bore
out and down
FORWARD TILT
TABLE UP Tilts the gantry in a +
Moves table up direction

TABLE DOWN BACKWARD TILT

Moves table down Tilts the gantry in a -
direction

• Table IN/OUT LEDs flashing means table overrun

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 GANTRY OPERATION PANELS
BUTTON DESCRIPTION
RESET
START Resets and Emergency
Starts the current scan Stop or Touch Switch

STOP
Stops the current scan
PAT SET
Moves the table in
DEMO BREATH towards the bore 290mm
Activates the Breathe /
No Breathe Lights
(Demo)
0 CLEAR
LIGHT LOCALIZER Resets the horizontal
Turns the lasers on for table position to 0mm
approximately 5 minutes

• Movement buttons that are “back lit” are active

• Table IN/OUT LEDs flashing means table overrun
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 GANTRY OPERATION PANELS
LED DESCRIPTION
TABLE HORIZONTAL
POSITION X-RAY ON
Displays the horizontal Lit when X-Rays are
position of the table being emitted

GANTRY TILT ANGLE

SHUTTER SCAN
Displays the gantry tilt
Lit when a shutter scan
angle
is in progress

TABLE VERTICAL
POSITION EMERGENCY STOP
Displays the vertical Lit when an Emergency
position of the table Stop switch is pressed

COUNT DOWN TIMER

Displays the time (in
seconds) until scan
starts

• Table IN/OUT LEDs flashing means table overrun

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 LASERS
Stationary

Rotating
Rotating

Rotating

Rotating Rotating

• Stationary laser used for initial patient positioning

• Five rotating lasers mounted at the slice position
• Lasers turn off automatically when gantry rotates
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PATIENT HANDLING SYSTEM
Carbon Fiber Pallet

Manual Table Retract Foot Pedals

Strip (In emergency
press the strip and
move bed)

Base Step here to

Step here to move PHS to
Bellows move PHS to Scan Position
Keeps fingers out Home / Patient
of mechanics Change Position
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 PATIENT HANDLING SYSTEM
SPECIFICATIONS
• Vertical travel range:
• 420 mm (17”) to 1000 mm (39”)
• Horizontal scan range:
• 1860 mm (73”)
• Distributed weight load:
• 225 kg (495 pounds)
• Width: 475 mm (19.0”)
• Length: 2730 mm (107.0”)
• Maximum vertical speed of 20 mm per second
• Position accuracy of of 0.01 mm
• Maximum horizontal speed of 100 mm per second
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 X-RAY CABINET
Scan Counter LED Panel

• Contains all components

necessary to control the X-Ray
tube
• High frequency inverter type
control
Access Door
• Main circuit breakers located
behind access door
• Scan counter display
• LED panel to display X-Ray
cabinet status

Front View
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 SCAN COUNTER

• Increments by one every time an X-Ray exposure

is taken
• If gantry is rotating during exposure, increments by
one every rotation
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 LED PANEL
X-Ray tube voltage
imbalance (cathode higher) Exposure in progress

Tube anode
Over-Voltage
Rotor ON
2FFB tripped Scanner room
door open
Rectifier DC
Voltage error Backup timer
Inverter #1 operation
Over-Current Chopper DC
Voltage error
Inverter #2
Over-Current
Chopper Over-Current
Inverter #3 Inverter #4
Over-Current Over-Current Cathode current
pulse too wide

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 CIRCUIT BREAKER PANEL
4FFB (30A) 5FFB (50A)
Gantry/IPU 2CP (1A)
Control
6FFB (40A) 1FFB (200A)
Mains ON Rotor Control Mains

Control Mains
ON

Control ON
2FFB (125A)
X-Ray Generator
3CP (3A)
1CP (1A)
3FFB (60A)
4CP (3A)
Control Mains
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 OPERATOR’S CONSOLE

Keyboard Mouse
Intercom Box

19” LCD Monitor Touchscreen

IPU Cabinet
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OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
KEYBOARD

• Standard 104 key keyboard

• PS2 interface to PC #1 in IPU cabinet
• Used to enter patient information

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 OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
MOUSE

• Standard 2 button intelli-mouse with roller wheel

• PS2 interface to PC #1 in IPU cabinet
• Used to navigate through windows menus

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OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
INTERCOM BOX

Top View
• Switches to interface with gantry
• Microphone to talk with patient
• Speaker to hear patient talk
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 OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
INTERCOM BOX BUTTONS
E-Stop RESET
Press to reset IPU cabinet

F1
Future expansion
F2
Future expansion

START
MOVE
Press to starts scan
Press to move table
or scanogram

SUSPEND TALK
Press to stop scan Press to talk to
gantry room
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 OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
INTERCOM BOX OTHER COMPONENTS
E-STOP LED
Lights if E-Stop active SPEAKER #2
Linked to microphone
SPEAKER #1 in the scan room
Linked to microphone
in the scan room

Intercom Box
Speaker Volume
X-RAY LED
Lit when X-Rays
being emitted
MICROPHONE
Used when talking
to scan room

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OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
19” LCD MONITOR

• 19” LCD monitor is standard

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OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
TOUCHSCREEN MONITOR

• Displays scanner status information

• Displays current scan parameters
• Displays many other parameters
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 OPERATOR’S CONSOLE
TOUCHSCREEN MONITOR
Heat Units (%) Patient Information Date/Time
Scanner Status
# of images left to
store on recon
hard disk
Exam. Time, Geo.
# of images left to Efficiency, CTDI vol
store on raw data
hard disk Time Chart
Recon queue status
Countdown Area
Archive queue status
Scan
HQ Net queue status Parameters
DICOM queue status Message
Display Area
Filming queue status
Table Movement
Table Position Control
Tilt Angle
Pause Button

Table Movement Table Auto Auto

Contrast Media
Direction Mode Display Button
Voice Stopwatch Stopwatch Stop Gantry
Button Button Button Rotation
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 IP CABINET
COVERS ON
CPU Power
ON Button Gantry Power
ON Button

>48X CD-R 9.4 GB DVD-RAM Drive

(For Loading Software (For Patient Archiving
on CPU0) and Loading Software
on CPU1)

CPU0 Computer
[Raw Data
Measurement] CPU1 Computer
Front View [Processing]

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 IMAGE PROCESSOR UNIT
BASIC HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
• Divided into two sections:
• Measurement System
• Scanner control interface
• Receives raw image data from gantry via fiber optics
• Applies corrections to raw image data
• Ethernet link to Image Analysis System
• Image Analysis System
• Receives corrected raw data from Measurement
System
• Performs slice interpolation and filtering
• Performs back projection on the slice data
• Performs post processing on image data

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 IMAGE PROCESSOR UNIT
Measurement System Basic Configuration
• Ricoh FB6GF-LS10 INTEL 845GV Motherboard
• Intel Celeron CPU with 128MB or more of DRAM
• Video display comes off a motherboard connection
• 100Base-T Ethernet (data transfer to Image Analysis)
• Part of the motherboard
• Scanner I/F Board (SCIF5) to interface with the gantry
• FR-MB5 Board to manage acquisition data from gantry
• 2 HR-DSP Boards to pre-process raw acquisition data
• 2 HR-PCI Boards to transfer patient data to CPU1
• Sharp LL-T1200T Touch Panel LCD monitor
• Interphone Box
• SATA Hard Disk Controller
• 300GB SATA Hard Disk (storage of raw data)
• 48X or greater CD-ROM drive for loading software
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 IMAGE PROCESSOR UNIT
Image Analysis System Basic Configuration
• Ricoh FB6GF-LS10 INTEL 845GV Motherboard
• Intel Pentium IV, 2.4 GHz or greater CPU
• 2 GB of DRAM
• Video display comes off a motherboard connection
• 100Base-T Ethernet (System communications with CPU0)
• Part of the motherboard
• Gigabit Ethernet Card (hospital network)
• 2 DSP Boards to perform filtering and calculate slices
• HR-PCI Board to perform image post processing
• HR-BP-V8 Board to perform back projections
• SATA Raid Controller
• 2 - 250 GB or greater SATA Hard Disks (level 1 RAID)
• 19” LCD monitor is standard

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 IMAGE PROCESSOR UNIT
BASIC SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION

• Windows XP embedded Operating System

• DICOM Import/Export Software
• DICOM Query/Retrieve Software
• DICOM Storage Software
• DICOM Print Software

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