Appendix A Technical Description
Instructions for Use A - 9
Continuous Wave Doppler (Auxiliary CW)
(Requires the Cardiac Application Module option or the Continuous Wave Doppler Interchangeability
Option)
ï‚§ Activates the port for Continuous Wave Doppler (pencil) transducers
Color Doppler Velocity (CDV) Features
ï‚§ 2D/Color display
ï‚§ User-adjustable color region of interest (ROI), size, and position
ï‚§ Independent controls for color gain, PRF, invert, baseline, space/time, persistence, priority,
and smoothing
ï‚§ Up to four user-selectable transmit frequencies
ï‚§ Color On/Off invert and baseline shift functions
ï‚§ Three user-selectable color flow states: low, general, and high
ï‚§ Color-adaptive wall filter
ï‚§ PRF range of 100 Hz to 19,500 Hz
ï‚§ Six color velocity maps (three velocity maps and three velocity + variance maps (VV))
ï‚§ Up to 512 color samples per color data line
ï‚§ Up to 512 2D-mode lines plus 256 color lines
Color Doppler Energy (CDE) Features
ï‚§ Power mode On/Off control
ï‚§ Background Power Doppler on and off selection
ï‚§ Power Gain from -20 dB to 20 dB in one decibel increments
ï‚§ Independent controls for power gain, PRF, invert, baseline, resolution/frame rate,
persistence, priority, and smoothing
ï‚§ Up to four user-selectable transmit frequencies
ï‚§ Up to eight user-selectable Power map selections
ï‚§ Up to five persistence levels (0 to 4)
ï‚§ Up to four levels of Power smoothing (0 to 3)
ï‚§ PRF range from 100 Hz to 19,500 Hz
ï‚§ Adaptive wall filter
ï‚§ Three user-selectable flow states: low, general, high