Coronis 5MP Mammo Online User Guide
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Table of contents Table of contents Using the online User Guide...................................................4 Sources of information ............................................................. 4 User interface............................................................................ 4 Graphic board control panel ...................................................6 Languages supported ............................................................... 6 Barco Driver Properties.........................
Using the online User Guide Using the online User Guide Sources of information Overview of product documentation Document Content Quick install sheet (poster in box) Gives a short overview of the installation of a complete system. Getting started guide (booklet in box) Gives a detailed description of the installation and connection of a complete system.
Using the online User Guide Item Favorites Description Allows to add and remove help topics to a list of favorites. (requires cookies) Items in the toolbar frame Item Description Synchronize Press this button to show the location of the help item in the Contents. Previous Press this button to move to the previous help topic. Next Press this button to move to the next help topic. Related topics Press this button to display related topics (if available).
Graphic board control panel Graphic board control panel This chapter describes how to configure the displays in your BARCO CORONIS 5MP MAMMO Display System using the tools available through the Advanced button on the Settings tab of the Windows Display Control Panel. Note: If you purchased Barco Medical Displays only and not a complete BARCO CORONIS 5MP MAMMO Display System you will need to refer to the user manual for the display controller you are using.
Graphic board control panel Barco Driver Properties Accessing the Barco tab Note: You must have logged on to Windows using an account with administrator privileges in order to use the Barco portions of the Windows Display Control Panel to change any display settings. 1. Open the Windows Display Control Panel by one of the methods below: a) Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display b) Open the “Display Properties Control Panel” by right clicking in an empty area on the desktop, then select Properties.
Graphic board control panel Figure 1: Ex: Barco Tab Display Information Name: Displays the model name of the display. Serial Number: Displays the serial number of the display. Backlight LifeTime: This is the amount of time in hours that the backlight has been on. The backlight will typically last a very long time, but will only be able to hold the recommended calibrated luminance for a certain amount of time, after which time it will become slowly dimmer.
Graphic board control panel installed in your system. This information is used by the Barco MIS Support team when trying to resolve customer issues. MediCal QAWeb Clicking on the QA Web button will launch the MediCal QAWeb application. Please refer to the MediCal QAWeb manual for information about this application.
Graphic board control panel • Clone The primary display is cloned to the secondary display. Color Format • 24-Bit TrueColor Mode • 30-Bit TrueColor Mode (HDR) Display Resolution • Sets display resolution for 1 or 2 displays. Note: To switch out of SingleView or Clone mode, the buttons in this Control Panel page must be used. The main Windows Control Panel cannot be used. Depending on your system, certain configurations can be disabled.
Graphic board control panel OpenGL and Direct3D The OpenGL and Direct3D pages of the Advanced Properties page are divided into two sections: Main Settings and Custom Settings. Main Settings In the Main Settings section there is a slider bar which allows the user to adjust the OpenGL or Direct3D settings for optimum performance, optimum quality or for a point in between. There is also a checkbox provided for enabling Custom Settings.
Graphic board control panel Please refer to the on-line help (click on the “?” in the control panel’s openGL tab) for more information on using advanced features such as Anisotropic Filtering. SMOOTHVISION The Advanced Settings tab enables you to apply ATI’s SMOOTHVISION technology for full-scene anti-aliasing. SMOOTHVISION improves image quality by removing jagged edges (anti-aliasing) from 3D images, resulting in smoother, more natural looking objects.
Graphic board control panel OpenGL Profiles The Configuration page enables you to customize display profiles for individual applications. Typically, you would change these settings for one or more of the following reasons: • Diagnostic purposes. • Fine-tuning a specific application/system configuration. • Specific settings recommended by your hardware or software documentation. • Tuning your application/system environment for best performance and memory usage.
Graphic board control panel configuration controls on this tabbed dialog to obtain the desired display parameters for the selected application. To remove the selected configuration profile completely, select the name of the application from the Configuration Profiles list box and click Delete. Note: You cannot delete the factory-set configuration profiles. Click the Apply or OK button to enable your Configuration settings.
Graphic board control panel Figure 2: User Modifiable Palette Note: If you are unsure whether or not your application requires this “User Modifiable Color” mode, contact your application provider. Static Gray Palette including standard system colors This option sets the palette to be a static set of 256 gray values. Applications are denied the ability to dynamically change or allocate palette entries.
Graphic board control panel between applications, which can cause image color values to appear distorted in the background application. As shown in figure 4, each of the 256 entries in the palette has an RGB value of (i, i, i) where i is the index from 0 to 255. Figure 4: Static Gray Palette with NO system colors If you wish to use a static gray palette we recommend using the “Static Gray Palette including Standard System Colors” option instead of this one.
Graphic board control panel More information about DirectDraw is available through the online help. Enable Dithering This option allows the user to enable or disable dithering. Dithering is a technique for increasing the perceived range of colors in an image at the cost of spatial resolution. Note: This option is only available when the User Modifiable Palette mode is selected.
Graphic board control panel Disable RGB To Static Gray Color Translation Select Disable RGB To Static Gray Color Translation if you wish to have RGB values equally weighted, with 1/3 each. When not selected, then the International Commission on Illumination (CIE – Commission Internationale de I’Eclairage) model will be adapted, which weights the colors as 59% Green, 30% Red, 11% Blue.
Graphic board control panel Configuring the Windows desktop Note: If you are using a color display in conjunction with your Barco grayscale display(s) you should configure your desktop before setting the resolution of your Barco grayscale display(s). You must have logged on to Windows using an account with administrator privileges in order to use the Barco portions of the Windows Display Control Panel to change any display settings.
Display information Display information Precautions 1. Optimize the lifetime of your display Enabling the Display Power Management System (DPMS) of your display (in the display’s Settings menu) will optimize its diagnostic lifetime by automatically switching off the backlight when the display is not used for a specified period of time. By default, DPMS is enabled on your display, but it also needs to be activated on your workstation. To do this, go to “Power Options Properties” in the “Control Panel”.
Display information diagnostic performance of the product. To ensure optimal product quality, Barco applies strict selection criteria for its LCD panels. To learn more about LCD technology and missing pixels, consult the dedicated white paper available at www.barcomedical.com. 4. Enhance user comfort Every Barco multi-head display system is color matched with the highest specification in the market. Barco recommends keeping color-matched displays together.
Display information Display controls Overview of controls 1 BAR CO 3 2 Figure 5: Front side 1. Power LED The LED is off when the display is disconnected from the power. The LED is also off when the LED function is disabled in the onscreen display (OSD). The LED is green when the display is on (when enabled in the on-screen menus). The LED is orange when the display is in Stand-by power-saving mode. 2. USB downstream port. 3.
Display information Stand-by switching When the display is on and no on-screen display is visible, press the control wheel at the front twice to switch the display into stand-by. The LED turns orange. BAR CO Press twice Figure 6 When the display is in stand-by, press the control wheel to switch it back on. Locking and unlocking user controls The User Controls function allows to disable or enable the control wheel functions.
Display information 3. Press the control wheel to enter the Settings menu. SETTINGS DPMS Power LED User Controls Language Auto Menu Exit Preffered Input EXIT On On On English On Native Figure 7: Settings menu 4. Rotate the control wheel to select User Controls. 5. Press then rotate the control wheel to switch from “On” to “Off”. 6. Exit the menus. To enable user controls: 1. Make sure the on-screen display is not on the screen. 2. Press and hold the control wheel for 10 seconds. 3.
Display information On-screen display (OSD) About the On-Screen Display (OSD) About the on-screen display The on-screen display (OSD) has a hierarchical tree structure, with several levels. The top level is the “Main Menu”. MDMG-5121 MAIN MENU Luminance Display Function Settings Information EXIT How to navigate through the OSD 1. When the OSD is not on the screen, rotate the control wheel to display the OSD. The main menu appears. 2.
Display information MDMG-5121 MAIN MENU Luminance Display Function 1 Settings Information EXIT 2 SETTINGS DPMS Power LED User controls EXIT 1. Rotate the control wheel 2. Press the control wheel On On On 3. To exit from a menu, rotate the control wheel to select EXIT and press the control wheel shortly. If you exit from the Main Menu, you exit the OSD. 4. To change an adjustment value (e.g.
Display information Luminance menu Luminance menu Name Description Measured luminance Indicates the actual luminance measured by the I-Guard sensor. This is a read-only value. Luminance target Allows to manually adjust the luminance target. See note below. Viewing mode Allows to select the viewing mode: Diagnostic or Text. In text mode the luminance is approximately half of the luminance in diagnostic mode. This is intended for use with office applications such as word processing.
Display information Name ALC & DICOM options Description Jumps to the ALC & DICOM Options submenu, which allows to edit the settings for the DICOM display function. This function is available only when the DICOM DF is selected. ALC & DICOM Options submenu Name DICOM offset Description DICOM DF is recalculated at the moment the DICOM Offset is changed, taking the new DICOM Offset into account. • When set to “Dark Room”, the ambient light is not taken into account.
Display information Reading room definition submenu Name Description Reading room Indicates the reading room type you are editing. You can select another room to edit. Max. ambient light This indicates the maximum ambient light that corresponds to the selected reading room. If the measured ambient light is higher than the value entered here, you should take measures to darken the room or select another reading room type. Preset corr.
Display information Name Description Power LED Allows to switch the power LED’s on state on/off. The LED's orange DPMS state is not influenced by this setting. So, when the display goes into powersaving mode, the LED will turn orange, even if it was switched off by this setting User control Allows to disable the control wheel on the front. When switched off, the user cannot display the OSD until the control wheel keycode is entered. Language Allows you to change the menu language.
Display information Information menu Information Name Description Product The display type Serial No Indicates the display serial number SW Version Displays the current internal software version Display runtime Indicates the total time the display has been operating, including the time in stand-by Backlight runtime Indicates the total time the display has been operating, excluding the time in stand-by Switching Power LED on/off To switch the power LED on/off: 1. Open the OSD main menu. 2.
Display information Switching DPMS on/off To switch DPMS on/off: 1. Open the main menu. 2. Open the Settings menu. 3. Select DPMS. 4. Select On or Off. 5. Return to the Settings menu. Changing Display Functions Concepts • The Display Function menu lets you select a display function (DF). • When you select the DICOM DF you can define the DICOM DF to be recalculated taking the ambient light into account.the recalculation can be based on an illuminance of 0 lux (“Dark Room”) a preset value (“Preset”).
Display information • The reading room parameters are pre-defined in the display according to the AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine). However they can be changed within certain limits. Display function selection To select a display function (DF): 1. Open the main menu. 2. Open the Display Function menu. 3. Select Display Function. 4. Select the desired DF. 5. Return to the Display Function menu.
Display information Name Description Gamma 2.2 Gamma 1.8 Select one of these display functions in case the display is to replace a CRT display with a gamma of 1.8 or 2.2 respectively. User This is a user-definable DF. ALC & DICOM Options DICOM offset Introduction DICOM DF will be recalculated only when another DICOM Offset is selected. The DICOM DF will be recalculated based on the new offset setting. To select a DICOM offset: 1. Select the DICOM display function. 2.
Display information Value Preset Description The DICOM DF will be recalculated taking a preset ambient light value into account. This value is determined by the selected Reading Room and can be adjusted manually within certain limits. Reading room selection This function is available only when the DICOM display function is selected. To select a reading room setting: 1. Select the DICOM display function. See To select a display function (DF):, on page 33. 2.
Display information Name Description Staff Office Corresponds to light conditions in office rooms. Clinical Viewing Corresponds to light conditions in diagnostic reading rooms for clinical viewing. Emergency Room Corresponds to light conditions in emergency rooms. Operating Room Corresponds to light conditions in operating rooms. This setting has the highest maximum ambient light. Reading room definition This function is available only when the DICOM display function is selected.
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