Vivid i

Vivid i delivers superb raw data image quality for cardiac and vascular imaging. New breakthroughs now let you assess LV function and cardiac performance more clearly and effectively than ever before.

• With its i2 Performance Package option, Vivid i offers enhanced image quality, faster image optimization, and increased productivity for novice and skilled users alike. The i2 package includes:
• Speckle Reduce Imaging (SRI) uses an adaptive, real-time software algorithm to improve image quality.
• Coded Phase Inversion (CPI) enhances contrast imaging with excellent sensitivity, resolution and tissue suppression.
• Compound imaging processes cross-beam images to enhance border definition, reduce acoustic artifact and improve contrast resolution.
• Automatic Spectrum Optimization (ASO) provides optimization of PW or CW spectrum scale and baseline display for increased productivity and ease of use.
• Harmonics on all high-frequency probes further enhance image quality
• See more clearly. Analyze more quickly. Do more efficiently. Vivid i streamlines your clinical productivity with advanced quantitative analysis tools that enhance diagnostic confidence and facilitate faster interpretations – even for difficult to- image patients.

Go anywhere.

• Go anywhere.At a patient's bedside. In the OR. In a satellite clinic or mobile imaging site. Vivid i makes it incredibly easy to bring leadership ultrasound imaging performance to a wide range of locations.
• OR/Anesthesia
• Address your perioperative needs with TEE adult/pediatric monitoring, saphenous vein harvesting and carotid evaluations.
• A new 9T multi-plane/multi-frequency pediatric TEE transducer facilitates studies on children.
• A TEE adapter lets you use the TEE transducer from the Vivid i on other Vivid systems.
• Rechargeable battery provides up to one hour of full scan operation.
• eVue option permits remote viewing of images on any PC for fast, convenient consultations.

Shared Services

• New transducers expand Vivid i's capabilities to more vascular, abdominal and OB/GYN exams.
  • 4C multi-frequency convex transducer for abdominal and OB/GYN exams
  • 8C micro-convex array transducer for neonatal, pediatric and abdominal exams
  • 12L high-frequency linear array transducer for peripheral vascular, small parts and musculoskeletal exams.
• Breakthrough IMT analysis package enables clinicians to quickly measure the carotid artery's intima-media thickness – a possible early indicator of atherosclerosis.

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System specifications

• Weight: 11 lbs (5 kg) without battery
• Dimensions: 12.4" x 14.2" x 2.3" (313mm x 358mm x 59mm)
• Architecture: All-digital signal processing and multibeam formation technology
• Up to 1024 processing channels

User Interface

• Easy-to-learn user interface with intelligent keyboard
• Keyboard with application-specific push buttons for primary controls
• Interactive back-lighting of application-specific push buttons
• Full-size, alphanumeric keyboard with adjustable backlighting
• Application-specific secondary controls available through slide bars operated by a four-way rocker
• Slide pot TGC curve with six pots
• Overall gain for 2D mode and active mode on same rotary
• Digital harvesting of images and loops into image clipboard
• Patient browser screen for registration of demographic data and quick review of image clipboard contents
• Fully programmable user presets for probe/application default settings
• Support for 12 international (European) keyboard character sets (ISO 8859)
• Integrated speakers

Monitor

• 15-inch color, high resolution, LCD screen
• Display size: 1600 x1200 pixels with 260,000 simultaneous colors available
• Scanner software supports display resolution of 800 x 600 pixel
• Screen can be closed or tilted at angles ranging between 0-180°
• Wide-angle visibility
• Digital brightness, contrast and blue-tint adjustment for optimal viewing in different ambient light conditions
• Closing down the screen will automatically place system into standby mode allowing fast boot-up upon screen opening

Display Formats

• Instant-review screen displays 12 simultaneous loops/images for a quick study review
• Scanplane position indicator and probe temperature are displayed with all multi-plane TEE probes
• Image orientation marker
• Selectable display configuration of duplex and triplex modes: side-by-side or top-bottom, during live, digital replay and clipboard image recall
• Single, dual and quad-screen view
• Split screen view

Data Acquisition

• Programmable system architecture
• Application-Specific Channel Architecture: the Vivid i employs a flexible digital beam-former architecture capable of using up to 1024 channels depending on specific application requirements
• Application-specific digital beam forming algorithm for each mode
• Supports Phased Array, Linear and Curved Array, TEE,
• 2D-ICE and non-imaging Pencil transducers
• Receive focusing, aperture, apodization and frequency response are all continuously variable as a function of depth
• Wide aperture mode in convex and linear array probes

Hard Drive

• Internal 80 GB hard drive

Image Management and Archiving

• Raw data workflow: ultimate workflow with instant access data management
• DICOM 3.0 Image Format: DICOM incorporates raw image data information with all its data management flexibility into the image communication standard DICOM
• 2D, CFM and TVI data at maximum frame rate may be reviewed by scrolling or by running cine loops
• Image clipboard for stamp-sized storage and review of stored images and loops
• Built-in patient archive with images/loops, patient information, measurements and report
• Configurable HTML-based report function
• Report template designer package
• Internal archive data can be exported to removable image
• storage through DVD/CD-RW, Magnet-Optical Disk and DICOM Media (option)
• Internal hard disk: for storing programs, application
• defaults, ultrasound images and patient archive
• Over 80 Gbyte disk space for exam archive storage
• All data storage is based on ultrasound raw data allowing to change gain, baseline, color maps, sweep speeds, etc. for recalled images and loops
• Raw-Data, DICOM, AVI, MPEG and JPEG export
• DVD writer (supports CD-R and DVD-R)

Excel Export

• Allows export of all archived measurement and textual patient information in standard Microsoft Excel files

DICOM Network Connectivity (option)

• Ethernet network connection
• DICOM support
• Storage to DICOM server
• DICOM structured report SCU
• Storage commitment
• Performed procedure step
• Verify: provides verification of an active connection between the scanner and another DICOM device

Modality Worklist (option)

• Modality worklist: gives access to a list of patients from a worklist server (usually HIS)

DICOM Print (option)

• DICOM Media Support (option)
• DICOM media: read/write images on DICOM format
• EchoPAC Connectivity
• Connectivity and image analysis capability of Vivid i from EchoPAC PC
• EchoPAC PC allows instant access to ultrasound raw data provided by the system
• Comprehensive review, analysis and post-processing capabilities on EchoPAC PC
• Advanced quantitative analysis and post-processing capabilities
• Q-Analysis on raw data from Vivid i on EchoPAC PC
• Three user levels help organizing data security requirements

Virtual Printer (option)

• Provides the ability to send "Print" commands to any of two printers even when not connected to a printer – upon re-connection of printer, the system automatically produces hard copies from print images saved in
• chronological succession on disk

MPEGvue (option)

• Using MPEGvue, exams may be stored onto removable media or on remote networked system together with integrated MPEGvue player for viewing on standard PC
• Smart email feature allows transparent transmission of images via email using resident Outlook email client
• Patient management utility on standard PC provides ability to organize the exams on different sub-directories on the user's hard disk

eVue (option)

• Allows interactive viewing of images, loops or full exams from remote location on any PC, using LAN or wireless LAN

Wideband Probes

• Electronic selection between one solid-state connector and one stand-alone Doppler connector
• Probe dependent applications

Peripherals (options)

• Super VHS VCR (requires video scan converter)
• USB black and white video printer with control from system panel
• USB color video printer with control from system panel
• USB inkjet printer
• MO 5.25" drive
• Secondary DVD/CD-RW
• USB flash memory card
• Wireless network interface

Accessories (options)

• Interface cable for External ECG
• Splash-proof protective keyboard cover
• Replacement battery
• External battery charger
• Replacement hard disk
• Safety lock
• Video scan converter
• GoPac portable carrying case or RollPac on wheels
• ECG adapter for DIN-type pediatrics electrode leads

Power Supply

• Battery or mains-line operation
• Input rating: 100-240 VAC/2.3 -1.1A
• Frequency: 50/60 Hz

System Input/Output

• SVGA video out
• Connectors:
  • USB-2 (to support CD-RW, video printers, MOD, USB flash-cards, etc.)
  • LAN Ethernet
  • PCMCIA (wireless LAN card)
  • DC power input

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Tissue Imaging - General

• Variable transmit frequencies for resolution/penetration optimization
• Display zoom with zoom area control
• Variable contour filtering for edge enhancement
• Variable dynamic range and transmit power settings
• Depth range up to 30 cm – probe specific
• Selectable grayscale parameters
• Automatically calculated TGC curves require minimal operator interaction
• Selectable Automatic Tissue Optimization (ATO)
• "Smart Depth" for 2D (option)

2D-mode

• Sector tilt and width control
• Coded octave imaging
• Confocal imaging
• Expanded cardiology performance on the 3S-RS probe
• Harmonic tissue imaging on all linear and convex probes
• Ultra-Definition Clarity setting for improved cardiac IQ
• Adaptive reject for improved cardiac IQ
• Ultra-Definition Speckle Reduction Imaging (UD-SRI)
• Coded Phase Inversion (CPI) for improved contrast resolution
• Variable image width: a reduction either increases
• frame rate or increases the number of focal zones while maintaining the frame rate – application dependent, on linear/convex array probes
• Multiple-angle compound imaging, multiple co-planar
• images from different angles combined into a single
• image in real-time improving border definition, contrast resolution and reducing angular dependence of border or edge (on linear probe)
• Dual focus: offers additional focal zone for added spatial and contrast resolution from heart base up to apical areas (cardiology application only)
• L/R and up/down invert in live, digital replay or image
• clipboard recall
• Digital replay for retrospective review or automatic looping of images allowing for adjustment of parameters such as gain, compression, reject, anatomical M-mode, persistence and replay speed
• Data Dependent Processing (DDP) performs temporal processing, which reduces random noise but leaves motion of significant tissue structures largely unaffected, can be adjusted even in digital replay
• Different gray-maps and colorized 2D-mode user selectable in real-time or in digital replay

M-mode

• Trackball-steerable M-mode line available with all imaging probes – max steering angle is probe dependent
• Simultaneous real-time 2D- and M-mode
• M-mode PRF 1 kHz: all image data acquired are combined to give high-quality recording regardless of display scroll speed
• Digital replay for retrospective review of spectral data
• Several top-bottom formats, side-by-side format and time-motion only format – can be adjusted in live or digital replay
• Selectable horizontal scroll speed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 seconds across display
• Horizontal scroll can be adjusted in live or digital replay 

Anatomical M-mode

• Any plane M-mode display derived from 2D cine loop
• M-mode cursor can be adjusted at any plane
• Can be activated from real-time scan, digital replay or image clipboard recall
• Anatomical color M-mode available in real-time scan, digital replay or image clipboard recall
• Measurement and analysis capability
• Anatomical tissue velocity M-mode (requires I2 option) 

Color Doppler - General

• Steerable color Doppler available with all imaging probes – max steering angle is probe dependent
• Trackball-controlled ROI
• Removal of color map from the tissue during digital replay
• Digital replay for retrospective review of color or color M-mode data allowing for adjustment of parameters, such as color/tissue priority and color gain, even on stored data
• PRF settings: user selectable
• Advanced regression wall filter gives efficient suppression of wall clutter
• For each encoding principle, multiple-color maps can be selected in live and digital replay including variance maps
• More than 65,000 simultaneous colors processed providing smooth display, 2D color maps containing a multitude of color hues
• Simultaneous display of grayscale 2D and 2D with color flow in live or in digital replay
• Color invert: user selectable in live and digital replay
• Variable color baseline: user selectable in live and digital replay
• Multivariate color priority function gives reliable delineation of disturbed flows even across bright areas of the 2D-mode image
• Color Doppler frequency can be changed independently from 2D for optimal flow

Color Doppler Imaging

• Digital signal processing power maintains high frame rates with large ROIs even for very low PRF settings
• Variable ROI size in width and depth
• User-selectable radial and lateral averaging for reduction of statistical uncertainty in the color velocity and variance estimates
• Data Dependent Processing (DDP) performs temporal
• processing and display smoothing with reduced possibility for loss of transient events of hemodynamic significance
• Digital replay for retrospective review or automatic looping of color images allowing for adjustment of parameters such as DDP, baseline shift, color maps, color/tissue priority and color gain even on frozen/recalled data
• Application-dependent multivariate motion discriminator reduces flash artifacts
• "Smart depth" for color (option) – automatically adjusts transmit pattern parameters according to depth of color ROI

Color Angio (Color Intensity Imaging)

• Angle-independent mode for visualization of small vessels with increased sensitivity compared to standard color flow

Color M-mode

• Variable ROI length and position – user selectable
• User-selectable radial averaging for reduction of statistical uncertainty in the color velocity and variance estimates
• Selectable horizontal scroll speed
• 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 seconds across display – can be adjusted during live, digital replay or image clipboard recall
• Real-time 2D image while in color M-mode
• Same controls and functions available as in standard
• 2D color Doppler

Anatomical Color M-mode

• Vingmed-patented, any plane color M-mode display derived from color Doppler cine loop
• Available in real-time scan, digital replay or image clipboard recall
• Also applicable to Tissue Velocity Imaging (option)
• Measurement and analysis capability 

B-Flow (option)

• B-Flow is a new digital imaging technique that provides real-time visualization of vascular hemodynamics by directly visualizing blood reflectors and presenting this information in a grayscale display
• Use of GE-patented techniques to boost blood echoes, and to preferentially suppress non-moving tissue signals
• B-Flow is available for most vascular and shared service applications

Blood Flow Imaging (BFI) (option)

• Combines color Doppler with grayscale speckle imaging
• Allows better delineation of blood flow without bleeding into tissue or vessel wall

Spectral Doppler - General

• Operates in PW, HPRF and CW modes
• Trackball-steerable Doppler available with all imaging probes – max steering angle is probe dependent
• Selectable Doppler optimization
• Real-time duplex or triplex operation in PW Doppler mode for all velocity settings
• Frame rate control for optimized use of acquisition power between spectrum, 2D and color Doppler modes in duplex or triplex modes
• Spectral analysis with an equivalent DFT rate of 0.2 ms
• Automatic Spectrum Optimization (ASO) provides a single press, automatic, real-time optimization of PW or CW spectrum scale and baseline display
• Dynamic gain compensation for display of flows with varying signal strengths over the cardiac cycle
• Dynamic reject gives consistent suppression of background – user selectable in real-time, digital replay or image clipboard recall
• Digital replay for retrospective review of spectral Doppler data
• Several top-bottom formats, side-by-side format and time-motion only format – can be adjusted in live or digital replay
• Selectable horizontal scroll speed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 seconds across display – can be adjusted in live or digital replay
• Adjustable spectral Doppler display parameters: gain, reject, compress, color maps – can be adjusted in live or digital replay
• Adjustable baseline and velocity scale
• Wall filters with a range of 10-3000 Hz (velocity scale dependent)
• Angle correction with automatic adjustment of velocity scale in live, digital replay and image clipboard recall
• Stereo speakers mounted in the front panel
• Display annotations of frequency, mode, scales, Nyquist limit, wall filter setting, angle correction and acoustic power indices 

PW/HPRF Doppler

• Automatic HPRF Doppler maintains its sensitivity even for shallow depths and with the highest PRFs
• Digital velocity tracking Doppler employs processing in range and time for high-quality spectral displays
• User-adjustable baseline shift in PW live, digital replay and image clipboard recall
• Adjustable sample volume size of 1-15 mm (probe dependent)
• Maximum sample volume depth 30 cm

Tissue Doppler Imaging

• Myocardial PW Doppler provides real-time Doppler spectral information for specified myocardial motion allowing for instantaneous tissue velocity measurement

CW Doppler

• Highly sensitive steerable CW available with all phased array probes

Tissue Velocity Imaging and Tissue Tracking (option)

Tissue Velocity Imaging (option, requires the i^2 option)

• Myocardial Doppler imaging with color overlay on tissue image
• Tissue Doppler data can be acquired in background during regular 2D imaging
• Segmental wall motion analysis can be obtained with use of anatomical M-mode from digital replay or image clipboard recall
• Tissue color overlay can be removed to show just the 2D image, still retaining the tissue velocity information
• Quantitative profiles (Q-Analysis) can be derived on data transferred to EPPC workstation

Tissue Tracking (option, requires the i^2 option)

• Real-time display of the time integral of TVI for quantitative display of myocardial systolic displacement
• Myocardial displacement is calculated and displayed as a color-coded overlay on the grayscale and M-mode image – different colors represent different displacement ranges

Tissue Synchronization Imaging – TSI (option, requires the TVI/TT option)

• Parametric imaging which gives information about synchronicity of myocardial motion
• Delayed myocardial segments produce red overlay – whereas segments moving in normal rhythm are green
• Available in live scanning as well as an offline calculation derived from TVI data

Cine Memory

• High-fidelity loops and images may be reviewed by scrolling or by running cine loops
• TruScan architecture offers broad post-processing capabilities of recalled images and loops allowing manipulation of parameters such as gain, baseline, color maps, sweep speeds, audio gain and cine speed
• Cine memory contains up to 180,000 frames (with default image settings: 2,500 to 5,600 frames)
• "Image Clipboard" for thumbnail storage and review of saved images and loops
• Trackball-controlled cine review

Fast Power-Up

• Standby mode to support fast boot-up
• Battery power backup allows continuous scanning during power interruptions

Physiological Traces

• Integrated ECG or external ECG lead input
• High-resolution display of the ECG trace
• User-adjustable gain/position control over ECG trace
• User pre-settable gain/position control of ECG
• Automatic QRS complex detection

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