FCR Long-View Exposure: Operation Guide
FCR Long-View Exposure: Operation Guide
FCR Long-View Exposure: Operation Guide
Operation Guide
This Operation Manual describes basic operating procedures and overview of operations
necessary for performing FCR long-view exposures. Please read this manual thoroughly
before actually operating these functions.
After reading this manual, store it nearby so that you can see it whenever necessary.
Please be sure to read also the [Image Reader Operation Manual] and [FUJI IP Cassette
type LC Operation Manual] that include detailed operating procedures of this product as
well as the precautions to be observed. 4th Edition July 2007 897N0556C
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Items needed
(1) FCR long-view exposure cassette (2) Grids available for the cassette size in use
Target region Used cassette (60 lines/mm or 80 lines/mm)
No longer than 58cm (pediatric whole spine) 10˝×12˝ Double Cassette * Use seamless grids.
No longer than 85cm (adult whole spine or pediatric
14˝×17˝ Double Cassette (3) CR Console Automatic Image Stitching software
lower extremities)
(option)
Longer than 85cm (adult whole extremities) 14˝×14˝ and 14˝×17˝ Triple Cassettes
1 Preparing Cassettes/
IPs
Select a FUJI long-view exposure cassette that is suitable for
2 Preparing the Exposure
Table
Have the exposure table ready for use.
exposure of the target region and load IPs in it.
1 Adjust the irradiated field so that X-rays are exposed to
the largest area possible on the cassette surface.
Double Cassette
We recommend that you use grids with no seams for
1 Load an IP in the cassette. long-view exposures.
Triple Cassette
4 IP Registration
(Reading the IP barcode)
Select exposure menus on the Console and then register an
1 Prior to IP loading, remove the coupling bars to divide the IP using the procedure below. Whole Spine 2R and Whole
Triple Cassette. Be sure to divide the cassette on a flat Leg 2R are available in the study menus for image reading.
surface such as a table or placed on the dedicated holder.
1 Select Whole Spine 2R or Whole Leg 2R from the
Slide button Console exposure menus and open the study window.
Check to see on the opened study window that “WS” is
Coupling bar
selected for function processing.
1
Slide the button to Function processing selection
the direction marked
with an arrow.
2 Remove the
coupling bar
to the outside.
Double Cassette
From the BOTTOM
at the MIDDLE
From the TOP
BOTTOM
2 Register the first IP starting from the TOP side on the rear
of the long-view exposure cassette.
TOP
5 Image Reading/
Stitching
After having images be read on the Image Reader, stitch
images to each other on the Console as follows.
Note that procedures used are different with each other for
the Double Cassette and Triple Cassette.
• [Image stitching] can be selected only when images to
be stitched have been selected accordingly.
Start to insert the cassette that covers the thickest body • An image read by the FCR XG-1 and another read by
part. the FCR 5000 plus series cannot be stitched to each
other mixedly.
Double Cassette • To display images before and after stitching processing,
select [monitor mode].
1 For Whole Leg exposures, • Image re-stitching is disabled when a study was
insert the Double Cassette into finished without performing image stitching processing.
the Image Reader from the TOP • In an institution where no Barcode Readers are used for
side, and from the BOTTOM side IP registration, be sure to change order of menus
exposed before selecting [Image stitching].
into the same Image Reader for
6
Whole Spine exposures.
Film Printout/Transfer
of Stitched Images
Upon completion of a study, images are transferred to a
Triple Cassette printer or a device specified on the Console.
The table below shows reduction ratios applicable to images
1 Insert divided cassettes into the same Image Reader printed on film, when settings for life-size (100%-size) output
according to order below: are not determined on the Console.
For exposure of the whole leg : Top → Middle → Bottom One image on One image on Two images on
14”×17” film 26×36cm film 26×36cm film
For exposure of the whole spine: Bottom → Middle → Top
Three 14”×17” stitched images 32% 21% –
For exposure of the whole leg Three 14”×14” stitched images 40% 27% –
Insert the IP Two 14”×17” stitched images 50% 34% 25%*
from the TOP.
Two 10”×12” stitched images 67% 45% 33%*
* Values above are applied when images are printed on film from peripheral devices.
Processing
Images stitched on the Console study window can be
restitched on the QA window.
On the QA window, images undergone stitching processing
can be reverted to the original state and images thus
reverted are rotated or reduced/magnified so that they are
restitched appropriately.
2 Select [WS] from the QA window palette. • If restitching processing is selected, the system restores the
A window opens to show images where stitching images before performing stitching processing. You cannot
select automatic image stitching processing again.
processing is to be started manually.
• When selecting restitching processing, please be aware that
the image rotation function is not achievable with manual
image stitching processing.
8 Image Output
To output stitched images, follow the standard operation
procedure that can be used on the Console.
For details of operations on the Console, see the Console
Operation Manual.
9 Cassette Storage
For storage of a Triple Cassette, we recommend that you use
a dedicated holder for safety purpose.
3 Determine order or direction of images, as necessary.
(The window below displays images before they are
subjected to stitching processing.)
Holder
Long-view cassette