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Legend
Display Monitor:
Swivels to the left and right, tilts up and down.
Speakers
Control panel:
Contains all the buttons and the alphanumeric 
keyboard used to operate the system. See 
page 29 for further details.
Probe and gel holders:
Situated on either side of the Control panel.
VCR
Probe ports:
Three active and one park phased array 
probe ports, and two pencil probe ports.
Foot brakes:
Control swivel and brake of the wheels. See 
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CD-RW is not 
supported, only 
CD-R 
(recordable).Portable disks:
•  Magneto optical disk
• CD-ROM
Patient I/O
Black & white video printer
Console swivel operating handle:
Situated in the middle beneath the front 
handles.
•  Vivid 7: swivel and in/out displacement
•  Vivid 7 PRO: limited swivel only
Console lifting operating handle:
Situated in the left front handle.
Color video printer Legend
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Control panel
The following pictures illustrate the layout of the Vivid 7/
Vivid 7 PRO control panel. The buttons and controls are 
grouped together for ease of use. A detailed description of the 
buttons is provided on the following pages.
 Figure 1-7: The control panel (left side).
1. TGC sliders
2. Loudspeaker volume 
control
3. On/Off button
4. F1-F4 keys: (Not in use)
5. Navigation keys: 
Archiving & Reporting 
buttons Pre-
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 Figure 1-8: The control panel (right side).
8. Active mode gain
9. 2D gain
10. Scan mode selection 
keys
11. Assignable keys
12. Zoom control
13. Depth control
14. Display format keys
15. Measurement, Image 
store and menu keys
16. Soft menu rocker
17. VCR controls and print 
keys
18. Freeze keys
19. Trackball operation
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Key illumination
The keys on the control panel are illuminated according to their 
availability:
• Illumination in green: the key function is currently active.
• Illumination in yellow: the key function is available (but 
not active) in the current state of the scanner.
• No illumination: The key is not available in the current 
state of the scanner.
Power On/Off key
Navigation keys
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Gives access to controls for physiological traces. 
The controls appear on the assignable keys.
Displays the examination report.
Brings the scanner into the Image review mode, 
that enables the user to select images from the 
clipboard for analysis, activate the image 
browser or enter the Image Review screen 
where bigger previews of the images are shown 
for image selection. Refer to page 293 for details 
on the review of images.
Displays the...

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Scan Mode Selection keys
The following keys are used to select the required scan mode, 
and to select additional tools that enhance the application’s 
capabilities. Refer to page 89 for detailed information about 
scanning.
Key Description
Displays the 2D live acquisition mode that is the 
default scanning screen for the unit. For further 
information on 2D scanning, refer to page 92.
M-Mode can be 
added from a 2D 
scan also in...

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Basic Mode Parameter Adjustment Controls
The following controls are used to modify and adjust the unit’s 
display to best suit the user’s requirements, such as color, gain, 
zoom and image depth, according to the mode being operated 
by the user.
Controls Description
2D GainControls the total gain of the gray scale images 
in 2D Mode.
Active mode 
GainControls the total gain of other activated modes, 
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Freeze keys
The freeze keys are used to freeze images and cine loops in all 
modes for on-line analysis and storage for future use.
Display format keys
The following keys provide different view formats to best suit 
the user’s requirements.
Toggles the high resolution (HR) zoom on/off. 
The key has no effect in replay. The HR zoom 
concentrates the image processing to a user 
selectable portion of the image, resulting in an 
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Measurement controls
The following keys are used to take measurements and 
perform calculations.
Enables multiple image display windows in 
which two or four images can be viewed 
simultaneously. When reducing the number of 
images, the active window will always been kept.
In combined mode, switches between the mode 
specific assignable controls of the currently used 
modes.
Toggles the active window in multiple imaging 
mode. The active window...