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FirstCall is the only test system designed to test each individual element for capacitance and sensitivity. With FirstCall, the integrity of the transducer is easy to determine, track, and quantitatively measure. Unlike phantoms, FirstCall ensures Doppler measurements and ultrasound scans are always accurate
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So How Does FirstCall work? For the first time EBME Departments have the ability to test and blue print transducers, negating any ambiguity when it comes to determining performance of your scanners. An extremely useful facility when systems reach warranty ends or as part of your process investigating complaints of loss of image quality by clinical users While phantoms detect some artifacts in an ultrasound image, they fail to provide accurate and quantitative quality assurance data. The FirstCall test system analyses each element in a transducer array to locate malfunctions even before they affect the image On every report, FirstCall shows the exact location of any dead or weak elements and identifies other integrity problems such as a delaminated lens, cable break, or contaminated connector. An extensive test database and easy to read reports allow probe tests to be recorded and tracked, maximising your service program benefits. With the FirstCall test system, the difference between abuse, manufacturing defects, and natural deterioration is strikingly clear FirstCall tests all major manufactures probes such as Acuson / Siemens, ATL / Philips / H.P, GE, SonoSite, Aloka MIUS provides in-depth probe testing and report interpretation training with every purchase |
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| Why invest in FirstCall? While many ultrasound quality control systems use phantoms to test the efficacy of their transducers, phantoms are simply not enough. Dead elements and elements with weak sensitivity obscure the signals sent and received by the transducer. However, the elements' impact on the image is not always as obvious as a dropout
For further information on FirstCall and how it can work for your EBME Department please contact us
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Just two dead elements in the centre of the array, as seen on the FirstCall report below, shows no impact on the scan of a phantom
However, the difference between the two Doppler measurements is staggering
