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Acclarix AX8 Diagnostic Ultrasound System User Manual System Setup
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8 Presets
8.1 Preset Organization
The Acclarix AX8 Presets are divided into two levels: the Exam Presets and Application Presets.
Exam Preset: Each transducer has its own set of Exam Presets. Each Exam Preset contains:
 The image parameters that optimize its transducer for an intended use.
 The list of data fields displayed on the patient demographic page.
 Pointers to Application Presets for Comments, Measurements, and BodyMarkers.
Application Preset: The Application Presets are independent from the transducer. Application
Presets are used to select Comments, BodyMarkers and Measurements. Since they are
independent from the transducer, several Exam Presets can use the same Application Preset.
Figure 8-1 shows an example of how Transducers, Exam Presets, and Application Presets are
related. For simplicity, this shows just a few of the items that are on the real system. In this
example the C5-2XQ and the E8-4Q both have an OB Exam Preset. The C5-2XQ OB Exam
Preset optimizes the C5-2XQ imaging for OB while the E8-4Q OB Exam Preset optimizes the
E8-4Q for the same use. The parameters used for each transducer can be different, and changing
one Exam preset does not change the other.
However, both OB Exam Presets point to the same OB Measurement Preset as the Application
Preset. This means you can, for example, just configure OB measurements once, and both the
C5-2XQ and E8-4Q will have updated OB measurements.
This example just shows a single kind of Application Preset. The Acclarix AX8 actually has
separate Application presets for Comments ,Bodymarkers and Measurements. The same principle
applies to each of these: application presets can be shared across exam presets and transducers.
Figure 8-1 Preset Organization