Barco K5902007 - 00 - Manual

Introduction 10 1 Introduction 1.1 About this manual This manual describes how to install and use the MediCal ® Pro software. Some of the functions in MediCal Pro are accessible in Advanced user mode only. In the manual, these functions are indicated by this symbol: 1.2 About MediCal ® Pro MediCal P...

Introduction 11 MediCal Pro supports BARCO displays as well as displays from other brands. It allows the connection of the following optical sensors: Barco LCD sensor, Barco Serial sensor, X-Rite DTP92 (serial and USB), Wellhofer Luxor LXPlus, Solar PMA2200, Minolta LS100, Verilum CPOD (serial and U...

Introduction 12 1.4 The main window at start-up MediCal Pro always starts in Standard user mode.In Standard user mode, the main window consists of the Q/A Check section, allowing you to run and check Q/A tasks. The Q/A Check section in the main window contains the following items: • Last Q/A check o...

Introduction 13 • Test Patterns... button: Click to open the Test Patterns dialog. From this dialog you can select to display test patterns. • Q/A Setup... button: Click to open the Q/A Setup dialog. From this dialog you can see which tasks are scheduled. To modify the task schedule, you must log in...

First installation 18 2 First Installation 2.1 Overview If you install MediCal Pro on a medical viewing station for the first time, you should go through the steps listed below.These steps are just listed here, as an overview of the complete installation. They are described in detail further in this...

First installation 21 2.2 Installation of the hardware MediCal Pro can be used on any viewing station that runs on Windows NT4, Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional. The viewing station can contain any number of displays, Barco and non-Barco displays.It is impossible to describe the ...

First installation 22 2 Video connection: Connect the video and sync inputs of each display to a different imaging board head inside the viewing station’s computer.The leftmost display must be connected to head A, the second leftmost display to head B, etc.Note: An imaging board can be a single-head...

First installation 23 2.3 MediCal Pro installation Minimum System requirements • Operating system: Windows 2000 Professional/Windows XP Professional/Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (32-bit) • Memory: 128 MByte • Free disk space: 50 MByte • Internet Explorer 4.0 Before installing MediCal Pro 1 Y...

First installation 24 Click on the Browse... button if you want to change this directory. Click on the Next> button to continue. 10 Choose the setup type that corresponds to the viewing station on which MediCal Pro is installed: A system with CRT displays or with flat panel displays. 11 Select th...

First installation 26 Note:Prior to connecting the viewing station to the MediCal Administrator server, the medical facility to which the viewing station belongs, must be added already to MediCal Administrator. For more information, please consult your system administrator.If you do not have MediCal...

First installation 29 8 Click on Finish to go to the MediCal Pro main window. 2.5 Setting up the configuration Introduction The medical viewing station consists of a computer, a number of imaging boards (containing one or more heads), an optical sensor and one or more displays. They are all connecte...

First installation 30 An example of a medical viewing station consisting of one PC with four imaging board heads and four Barco flat panels connected. Those panels have an internal optical sensor. The configuration is the logical representation of the viewing station’s components in MediCal Pro.A co...

First installation 31 1 Configuration setup This page indicates the start of the Wizard.At the same time, a character appears on the screen of each display. It refers to the imaging board head the display is connected to. It will be visible during the complete setup process.Click on Next to continue...

First installation 32 3 Searching for Barco displays The Wizard looks if there are Barco displays connected to the workstation computer via serial data connection.After a few seconds, it returns the number of found Barco displays. Note: In case Barco flat panel displays are connected to the workstat...

First installation 34 Yes:You can proceed with the Wizard, adding Barco- and / or non-Barco displays. Continue with step 5. No:The Wizard gives a search error. Refer to “Solving Configuration Setup Wizard search errors” on page 40 for more information about what to do in case of a search error. Clic...

First installation 35 If you are adding non-Barco displays as well, please continue with the following step. 6 Control non-Barco displays If there are more heads in the computer than found Barco displays or if no Barco displays were found at all, the Wizard asks if you want to add non-Barco displays...

First installation 36 7 Remaining imaging board head The Wizard allows to logically link a non-Barco display to each remaining imaging board head. The Wizard makes a suggestion of the head to link the display to by inverting the colors of the character in the display’s lower right corner. Select Yes...

First installation 37 8 Define display Enter the brand name, type and serial number. Indicate if the display is a flat panel or CRT display. Also, you have to indicate whether the display is a grayscale display or not.Note: It is important to enter the correct data here, so that the display can be f...

First installation 38 Display function Select the required display function from the drop-down list. For most medical viewing applications, we recommend you select the DICOM display function, as this function results in the most visible grayscales.If you select Gamma, you can enter a display gamma v...

First installation 39 Enter the desired white and black luminance, expressed in cd/m² or fl, depending on the application settings. 11 Calibration You can choose to calibrate the displays and possibly run a QA check on the displays after finishing the Wizard.The Q/A check option can be checked only ...

First installation 40 12 Configuration setup complete The Wizard is completed. Select Finish to return to the main window.The display icons are now filled in in the main window’s Configuration section. Note: If MediCal Pro was installed for CRT displays and the Wizard has now detected only Barco fla...

First installation 41 The most common causes of failures in finding Barco displays are: • Data cables not or wrongly connected • Some of the displays have equal remote addresses.The remote addresses can be set by means of the display’s OSD menus. The Wizard provides two ways to solve a search proble...

First installation 42 The Wizard now continues with step 3 of the normal, previously described sequence. If the connection problem persists, the Wizard will arrive at the search error page again. If this is the case, the problem may be caused by overlapping remote addresses (ID’s). b) The problem is...

First installation 44 7 You have to repeat the previous step on the other Barco displays, in descending order towards the computer.Read and follow the instructions of the Wizard carefully. 8 After having disconnected each display one by one, reconnect all data cables.Make sure they are connected pro...

First installation 45 After a few seconds, the selected display shows a test pattern. At the same time, the display alignment dialog appears. The adjustments in the Alignment window are combined in a number of groups (display alignment families). Note:The number of alignment families and alignments ...

First installation 46 East-West geometry settings White uniformity settings (on color displays only) Special settings The Alignment dialog contains the following elements: • The icons at the top of the dialog indicate the different alignment families (e.g., horizontal geometry, vertical geometry etc...

First installation 48 Vertical geometry settings Vertical position (course) Position the middle horizontal line of the test image approximately in the center. This is a course adjustment. You will get the opportunity to fine-tune later in the procedure. Screen height Adjust the height of the white f...

First installation 50 Vertical uniformity This adjustment is especially necessary when the display is operating in the southern hemisphere or near the equator. Adjust to remove purity or uniformity errors, especially in the center of the image.Note: After each change of vertical uniformity, you migh...

First installation 51 To adjust the astigmatism: 1 In the adjustment dialog, select the zone you want to adjust by clicking on the corresponding number in the “Zone-selection” area. The corresponding zone of the test image is highlighted. 2 Gently drag the Static Focus slider completely to the right...

First installation 52 2.7 Defining Presets Introduction For each display in the configuration, you must define a Preset.The Preset is very important in the Q/A concept. In a preset you define the display’s reference for visual behavior. With this reference, we want the display to be conform. The Q/A...

First installation 53 Select Presets... from the drop-down menu.The Presets dialog appears. The left column shows the installed presets. The right window pane shows the properties of the preset selected in the left column.You can select an installed preset and, if necessary, modify its properties. A...

First installation 54 White target setup on grayscale displays White target setup on color displays (screenshot taken from Barco Color Coronis displays) Measure on next calibration Select this option if you do not wish to enter a target value now. Instead, the target value will be determined by meas...

First installation 55 the display can reach. This luminance will decrease in time and calibration will be needed more frequently.On systems with multiple Color Coronis displays connected, MediCal Pro will ask to calibrate the other displays to maximized luminance as well, taking into account that th...

First installation 56 Black target setup on color displays Measure on next calibration (Luminance) Select this option if you do not wish to enter a target value now. Instead, the target value will be determined by measuring during the next calibration. Absolute value (Luminance) Select this option i...

First installation 58 Display function Select the required display function from the drop-down list. For most medical viewing applications, we recommend you select the DICOM display function, as this function results in the most visible grayscales.If you select Gamma, you can enter a display gamma v...

First installation 59 2.10 Defining the Q/A task trigger settings The tasks can be categorized in three groups, depending on the impact they have on the user and the applications running on the viewing station.The task categories are: The trigger settings determine when the tasks will be executed af...

First installation 60 2 Select the Trigger Settings tab.3 Set the trigger settings. The possible trigger settings are:

First installation 61 When the user logs in Tasks that have become due, will be executed at the moment a user logs in on the workstation. This is a good setting for tasks that require a user interaction (non-intervention-free). The tasks are executed after they have become due and at the moment some...

First installation 62 No trigger settings defined If you do not check any of the trigger settings, the task will not start automatically, even when it has become due. The task can be run manually only. 2.11 When will a task start? First condition: Task is due The first condition for a task to start,...

First installation 63 Example:Let us again suppose that the Measure Quality Level task is scheduled weekly, on Thursday at 10 PM.Let us also suppose the trigger settings for this task are set to: "When the screen saver is activated".On Thursday at 10.00 PM, a doctor is working on the worksta...

Using MediCal Pro 66 3 Using MediCal Pro 3.1 Starting up To start MediCal Pro, proceed as follows: 1 If the viewing station contains Barco displays, make sure there is no on-screen display (OSD) on the screen of the displays. Please refer to the display’s user manual to know how to do this. 2 Start ...

Using MediCal Pro 67 Select Quit application to stop MediCal Pro. Then you can try to restore the hardware connection to the display that was missing, and restart MediCal Pro.Select Remove to continue with the start-up. 5 Also during startup, the following message may appear: This means a Q/A task i...

Using MediCal Pro 68 3.3 Changing passwords When you have logged in as advanced user, you can change the advanced user password. To change the advanced user password: 1 From the main window, press Alt-A on the keyboard or select Tools – Options – User Login... from the menus. Your user name is still...

Using MediCal Pro 69 • You can also calibrate a display by right-clicking on its icon in the main window, and selecting Calibrate... from the drop-down menu. Calibrating Barco displays with built-in I-Guard sensor The Barco Coronis flat panel displays have a built-in optical sensor that communicates...

Using MediCal Pro 71 Full screen calibration Full screen calibration is possible on Barco CRT displays only. The optical sensor must be connected to the display to be able to perform full screen calibration.The function is grayed if not available on the display.The purpose of full screen calibration...

Using MediCal Pro 74 6 The black luminance and white luminance measurements may influence each other, so that the value of the first step changes when the second step is done. Therefore, you have to repeat both steps (steps 3 and 4) until both values remain stable. 7 Click on Yes to repeat the measu...

Using MediCal Pro 77 2 Select Status > Disabled to disable the task. As a result, the task will not be executed until it is manually enabled again.Select Status > Enabled to enable the task to be executed. The task will be executed according to the entered schedule. This is indicated by the ch...

Using MediCal Pro 78 Notes:• After enabling and scheduling a task, it may still not appear as a due task. The cause of this may be that the display(s) in the configuration are not calibrated. Some tasks can be executed on calibrated displays only. • The moment that the task will be executed automati...

Using MediCal Pro 79 Description of the tasks To display a task description 1 In the Q/A setup window, right-click on the name of the task of which you wish to view the description. A drop-down menu appears (see above). 2 Select Info... The task description appears. 3.6 Performing Q/A checks Running...

Using MediCal Pro 81 3 Select Run Now. The task will start immediately. Checking task results Checking the results of executed tasks can be done with the MediCal Administrator application, if installed.However, also in MediCal Pro you can check the task results. To check the task results, click on t...

Using MediCal Pro 82 • To see a description of the problem(s), click on the question mark. The problem description appears. • To get hints for a possible solution, click on the sentence See here how to solve this problem. As a result, an html page with problem solving hints appears. To display all t...

Using MediCal Pro 83 • To see the history log of a task, click the task name in the All Results window. • For tasks that were Not OK: To see a problem description and a hint to solve the problem, click on the question mark next to the task in the All Results window. To display a particular task’s la...

Using MediCal Pro 84 • For tasks that were Not OK: To see a problem description and a hint to solve the problem, click on the question mark next to the task in the Last Result window. To display a particular task’s history of results: In the Last Result window (see above), click on the underlined na...

Using MediCal Pro 85 To see more (older) results in the history list, click on the double arrow under the scroll bar at the right of the list.To define the number of results you want to see in the history list, click on the small square under the scroll bar at the right of the list, and select the n...

Using MediCal Pro 86 3 Select a pattern from the drop-down list. If you select Select Image, a dialog box will appear when the pattern is loaded, allowing you to select any jpg, bmp or gif image file on the computer. 4 Click on the Load button. After a few seconds, the test pattern will appear. 5 Th...

Using MediCal Pro 88 3.7 Changing an existing configuration When a configuration is set up, you can add or remove displays without running the Configuration Setup Wizard. Note:After changing anything to the configuration, you need to run the Q/A tasks again. If not, the task results will appear Unkn...

Using MediCal Pro 90 • Check the communication port to which the display is connected. • Select the Remote Address number corresponding to the display’s remote address. • Click on Identify to see which display is connected to which head. For a few seconds, you will see the letter of the heads on the...

Using MediCal Pro 91 Note:When a display is removed from the configuration, the task histories related to that display will no longer be visible in MediCal Pro.However, the histories are not deleted. When you connect the same display again, the histories will be visible as well. 3.8 Connecting to Me...

Using MediCal Pro 93 3.10 Selecting Luminance units The results and values of luminance measurements can be expressed in Candela per square meter (Cd/m²) or Footlambert (fL). To select the luminance units:1 From the Tools menu, select Options > Application Settings (see above). 2 Select the Gener...

Using MediCal Pro 94 3 Check the types of sensors used on the viewing station. Do not check the types that are not used. 4 Select a sensor type and use the and buttons left of the sensor list to change the priority of sensors. 3.13 Additional display functions Viewing display and imaging board prope...

Using MediCal Pro 95 The display device properties dialog appears. Display Properties Select the Display tab in the display device properties dialog. Brand name: The display brand name. Display type: The display type or description. Serial number: The display’s serial number. Software number: The or...

Using MediCal Pro 96 Display Details: Flat panel displays Screen width The width of the visible display screen. The unit of length can be selected in the Application Settings dialog. Gray scale: This option is checked if the software has detected the display is a grayscale display (BARCO displays on...

Using MediCal Pro 97 Display Details: CRT displays Stabilizer Check this option to switch on the backlight sta-bilizer. The option is grayed if not applicable to the selected display. DPMS Check this option to switch on the Power Saving utility (DPMS). The option is grayed if not appli-cable to the ...

Using MediCal Pro 98 Info Miscellaneous Imaging board properties Display Number The order number of the display Software Number The order number of the display’s internal software (BARCO displays only) Software version The version of the display’s internal software (BARCO displays only) Lifetime The...

Using MediCal Pro 99 Select the Imaging board tab in the display device properties dialog. Controlling Contrast & Brightness This function is available for BARCO CRT displays only. In the Configuration section in the main window, right-click on the icon of the display you wish to control contras...

Using MediCal Pro 100 Automatic Contrast / Brightness If checked, this function uses the Ambient Light Compensation option to control Contrast and Brightness automatically.In that case, the Contrast and Brightness will be set depending on the ambient light around the display. This function is grayed...

Using MediCal Pro 101 From the drop-down menu that appears, select Luminance Uniformity Correction... The Luminance Uniformity Correction system, if calibrated by means of “Full Screen Calibration” (see below), ensures a uniform luminance, even in the corners of the picture tube. This function is gr...

Using MediCal Pro 102 As a result, possible purity errors in the image (so-called hot spots) are removed. The display automatically degausses at switch-on. 3.14 Special functions for displays in mammography systems These functions are available for Barco displays of type MFGD 5621 HD only. To get ac...

Using MediCal Pro 103 When clicking on Show Pixel Defects, a map with all pixel artifacts appears on the screen. Each artifact is indicated by a symbol.• A black circle indicates a partly bright subpixel. • A white square indicates a dark or partly dark subpixel. To get more information about a sing...

Using MediCal Pro 104 The change in appearance is activated after restarting MediCal Pro. 3.16 Getting help Context-sensitive help MediCal Pro contains context-sensitive help. To get help about a particular view or window, press F1 on the computer keyboard. As a result, the online help pages will op...

Glossary 106 4 Glossary Q/A check In softcopy diagnostic systems, displays are used to judge medical images and to take conclusions about patients’ physical condition.It is obvious that the image quality is of the utmost importance. Therefore it is necessary to check the quality of the system, and e...

Glossary 107 Viewing station The medical viewing station consists of a computer, a number of imaging boards (containing one or more heads), an optical sensor and one or more displays. They are all connected physically, by means of cables and connectors. Configuration The configuration in MediCal Pro...

Glossary 108 This is called a dual head imaging board. It is like two complete imaging boards implemented on one single unit.A dual head board in the computer behaves exactly as if two separate boards were installed. DICOM DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine . It is a sta...

109 Index Symbols (Advanced user symbol) 10 A Add Barco display 89Add Display 15, 88Address 21, 42, 98Advanced user 25Advanced user mode 10, 13AKB removal 48AKB shift 48Alignment 16, 44Ambient Light Compensation 38, 58, 70, 72, 100Ambient Light Shield 69, 71, 72Automatic Contrast / Brightness 100Axi...

112 Per Pixel Uniformity 97, 102Pixel defects 97, 102, 103Powersave 97, 98PPU 97, 102Presets 16Properties 15, 78, 79, 94, 102 Q Q/A Check 12, 63Q/A Setup 13, 75Q/A task Running All due tasks 79Single task 80 Q/A tasks 106Quarterly 77 R Remote address 21, 42, 98Remote Timeout 98Remove Display 16, 90R...

113 T Task frequency Daily 77Monthly 77Quarterly 77Twice a Year 77Weekly 77Yearly 77 Task history 84Test Patterns 13Todays Q/A tasks 12Tools menu 13Trapezoid deformation 49trigger settings 59Twice a Year 77 U Unknown 12User Login 67User mode 10 V Vertical linearity 48Vertical position 48Vertical S-c...