S Family Manipulating an Endovaginal 3D Volume

ACUSON S Family™ Ultrasound System Manipulating an Endovaginal 3D Volume 1. Select an EV volume in review. SIEMENS EC9-4 / GYN General 2D GEN / 8.00 MHZ 100% 6 dB / DR 75 SC 2 2. Select 3D/4D Soft Key. THI 3D 4D Start 2D FOV 4D ROI Select Position Size 3. Zoom image if desired. Click on A plane with arrow (this is the left/center image on the 3:1 view – green box will highlight image). SIEMENS EC9-4 / GYN General 2D 100% GEN / 8.00 MHZ 6 dB / DR 75 SC 2 SIEMENS www.usa.siemens.com/healthcare 588 Effective Date: 09/06/2016 Page 1 of 4 4. Rotate Cine wheel to find center of sagittal uterus. SIEMENS EC9-4 / GYN General 2D 100% GEN / 8.00 MHZ 6 dB / DR 75 5. Use Trackball and move Reference dot to endometrium in the fundus. SIEMENS EC9-4 / GYN General 2D 1009 GEN / 8.00 MHZ 6 dB / DR 75 SC 2 6. Rotate Z axis control to line up endometrium parallel to C slice plane. SIEMENS EC9-4 / GYN General 2D GEN / 8.00 MHZ 100 6 dB / DR 75 SIEMENS www.usa.siemens.com/healthcare Page 2 of 4 7. Use thumbwheel and go to B Quadrant and Rotate Z axis control to line up endometrium parallel to C slice plane. Trace Quadrant 1:1 2:1 1:3 4:1 (" 00" 180" 270" (1:1) B Plane VOI Slice Select Pan X Y Z EC9-4 / GYN General 2D - GEN / 8.00 MHZ 100% 6 dB / DR 75 8. Go back to A plane with thumb wheel and Press Priority once to activate VOI size. Move trackball to the Right to make VOI wide and then push trackball up to make VOI as narrow as possible. SIEMENS EC9-4 / GYN General 2D GEN / 8.00 MHZ 100% 6 dB / DR 75 SC 2 SIEMENS www.usa.siemens.com/healthcare Page 3 of 4 9. Press Priority two more times to get back to the Reference dot (pan function). Move reference dot/VOI up/down to fine tune the Coronal view (whale’s tail) on the Volume image. Use Z and X to adjust cornua/endometrium in C Plane. Dial Thumb Wheel down so C plane is now active and green. SIEMENS EC9-4/ GYN General 2D 100% GEN / 8.00 MHZ 6 GB / DR 75 10. Use the Z axis hard key and roll trackball to the right to move image 90 degrees to straighten out C plane. As you do this the Volume will also follow. At the same time, the A and B planes will switch places. Click the Select key to get your arrow back. EC9-4 / GYN General 2D GEN / 8.00 MHZ 100 6 dB / DR 75 SC 2 SIEMENS www.usa.siemens.com/healthcare Page 4 of 4