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[goldcoastoh]

now mr. sano, with respect emitter device control...

i don't know specifically but infer it is as it is with any c-arm...

dean stated a foot pedal...

c-arms have this...

moreover, let's consider the OEC c-arms...

they emit via the following ways:

1.// foot pedal... tap it and take one instant picture, step and hold and image live. as well, this has a boost radiation level option. boost is used for big body types... you simply need to increase your "power" to penetrate a large body habitus (type).

2.// button... tap it with finger and and take one instant picture... hold button down longer and take live images...

3.// coiled tethered hand remote... quick push of this button, again for a simple frame/image... or hold the button for live fluoro... this remote also has an option for boost fluoro...

now, on the control panel you may select the "low dose" feature... this reconfigures your "power" to become dose sparring... when this feature is selected, then both the aforementioned regular and the boost pedal/buttons operate at this stepped-down feature...

finally, you may also select "pulsed" fluoro on the control panel... when you image live with pulsed the images on the monitor look as if you're under a strobe light... as a matter of fact the patient is... because the emitter is emitting in pulses...

when you combine low-dose and pulsed, you have significant dose savings...

as a matter of fact in pulsed mode all time is different, for instance, 10 seconds in pulsed fluoro mode, can equate to 30 or more or so seconds in continuous (non-pulsed) mode...

now, this is fluoro time only... not total procedure time... you for example, on any given day we may use between 4 seconds to 1 minute 38 seconds of fluoro time... these procedures can take between 15 minutes and 40 minutes... for patient to patient turnover... in an ambulatory sorta sort of setting.

one of our studies shows we have fluoro time ranging from 19.5 seconds to 304 seconds... all under "low-dose" and using pulsed mode as frequently as possible. and all pertaining to the same type of procedure... again, the procedure may be as quick as 20 minutes to as long as 50 minutes.

important to note these times for fluoro are not straight across the timeline times... they may be instant image every so often. i.e., intermittently applied... this is also good imaging practice...