User’s Manual

VIDEOMIX, DIGITIZING, CINE-LOOP AND PROCESSING

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 Table of contents Table of contents

Table of contents 3 Remote control and the video option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
3.2 RC-2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
3.3 RC-1000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
3.4 RC-1100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
1.1 Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
1.2 MMS Video option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
4 General video settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
1.3 Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
1.3.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
4.2 Settings before an investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
1.3.2 Videomix and image digitizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
4.2.1 Video input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
1.3.3 Cine-loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
4.2.2 Video memory allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
1.3.4 Video image processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
4.2.3 Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
1.3.5 High resolution video input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
4.2.4 Setup video capture window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
1.4 Manuals and online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
4.3 Settings during pre-test / investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
1.5 Video boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
4.3.1 Adjust brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
1.5.1 CronosPlus video board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
4.3.2 Video window display method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
1.5.2 Meteor II video board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
4.3.3 Video window positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
1.5.3 Pulsar video board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
4.4 Settings during analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
1.5.4 Software possibilities video boards . . . . . . . . . 1-11
4.4.1 Video image size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
1.6 Computer requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
4.4.2 Video overlay mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
4.4.3 Video window positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
2.1 Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
5 Videomix and image digitizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
2.2 Installation Cronosplus board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
2.2.1 Insert Cronosplus board in computer . . . . . . . . . 2-2
5.2 Videomix during investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
2.2.2 Prepare Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
5.3 Image digitization during investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
2.3 Installation Meteor II board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
5.4 Video image display during analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
2.3.1 Insert Meteor II board in computer . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
5.5 Video images in printed report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
2.3.2 Prepare Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
5.6 Process image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
2.4 Installation Pulsar board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
2.4.1 Insert Pulsar board in computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
6 Cine-loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
2.4.2 Prepare Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
2.5 Check the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
6.2 Cine-loop settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
2.6 Number of images to be digitized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
6.3 Cine-loop digitization during the investigation . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
2.7 Check / Change memory allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
6.4 Cine-loop display during analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
2.8 Trouble shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
6.5 Cine-loop images in printed report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
6.6 Process image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10

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7 Video image processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
7.2 Image instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
7.3 Image selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
7.3.1 Select image from investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
7.3.2 Select processed / original image . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
7.3.3 Select image to be displayed during review . . . . 7-6
7.3.4 Image area selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
7.4 Video image printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
7.5 Image processing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
7.5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
7.5.2 Special effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
7.5.3 Brighten and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
7.5.4 Image combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
7.5.5 Video image transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
7.5.6 Video image export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
7.6 Video measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
7.6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
7.6.2 Protocol measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
7.6.3 Free measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
7.6.4 General options during measurement . . . . . . . 7-22
7.6.5 Measurement results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23
7.6.6 Measurement calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
7.7 Video settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
7.8 Cine-loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26

Index

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1 Introduction WARNING If the computer is connected to external devices

(such as printer, modem, telephone-lines, sound
systems, network, video sources, display systems)
1.1 Safety information and/or the MMS equipment is combined with other
equipment (for example Barostat or TMPD) make
Before working with the MMS measurement system and the Video sure that the following requirements are met.
option, you have to know the safety information as described in the IEC 60601-1 (Medical electrical equipment, Part 1:
manuals supplied with your measurement system. General requirements for safety) and/or
IEC 60601-1-1 (Medical electrical equipment,
The MMS Video option is a prescription device to be used only by Part 1: General requirements for safety,
physicians or individuals who have been trained and authorized by a 1.Collateral standard: Safety requirements for
physician or by a medical institution, under the supervision of a medical electrical systems).
physician. The MMS Video option must be purchased under the
supervision of a physician. For US only: Caution: Federal law restricts
this device to sale by or on the order of a physician. 1.2 MMS Video option
The instructions and warnings in this manual should be followed by the The MMS Video option is intended to acquire, view, record, process,
operator to ensure safe operation. Therefore, the use of the MMS print, archive and retrieve video images, such as of gastro-enterology
Video option should be restricted to qualified personnel only. and urology procedures, of a fluoroscopic (X-ray) or Ultrasound
machine. Designated catheters and accessories are required for
This sign is printed in this manual in front of important measurement in each specific area.
warnings. It is important to pay good attention to these
warnings to provide patient safety and to prevent damaging The MMS Video option is often used with the Solar URO system for
of the equipment. urodynamic studies, and with the Solar GI system for gastro-intestinal
studies. These systems are delivered with different manuals (user’s,
WARNING Some computers have a large heat sink, which reference, service & installation) describing the hardware and the MMS
prevents long boards from using most PCI board software program.
slots. The Pulsar must not touch the heat sink, so
choose a slot where the board completely avoids NOTE In this manual, we will refer to images as X-ray
it. If there is no suitable slot, contact your images, please note that these images may have
computer dealer. another source, for instance Ultrasound.

WARNING Make sure that when the patient is connected to

more than one apparatus, the leakage currents
will not exceed the allowed limits.

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1.3 Configurations 1.3.2 Videomix and image digitizing

1.3.1 Overview Videomix and image digitizing allows simultaneous display of X-ray or
Ultrasound images and curves on one PC monitor. During the
The MMS Video option consists of a professional frame grabber and a investigation the X-ray or Ultrasound images can be digitized. These
software module. Depending on the configuration and the software digitized images are saved on disk, together with the measured data.
options you have ordered, you will receive one of the following video During the analysis you can display the digitized images on the monitor
boards: CronosPlus, Meteor II or Pulsar. In the table below you will find screen together with the curves of the measured channels (videomix).
a description of the four video software options. At the end, results and images can be printed in a report.

Video-mix and Allows simultaneous display of X-ray or Ultrasound 1.3.3 Cine-loop

image digitizing images and curves. Images can be digitized during
the measurement.
The Cine-loop option can be used to digitize a number of consecutive
Cine-loop digitizing Digitize a number of consecutive images (cine-loop). images. They can be played back as a cine-loop, a short film. A cine-
During the investigation you may switch between loop can have up to 900 images at different resolutions. Depending on
cine-loops and single images. the video standard used, 25 (PAL) or 30 (NTSC) images per second
can be digitized.
Video image Process the video images during analysis of an
processing investigation. Loop digitization can be started manually or automatically by an event,
for example a cough or urine leakage. Cine-loop analysis and replay is
High resolution Digitize high resolution video signals or non-standard enabled when the cine-loop option is present.
video signals.

In the table below, for each video board is described what video 1.3.4 Video image processing
options are standard, optional or not possible.
Video Image Processing is used to obtain maximum information from
CronosPlus CronosPlus Meteor II Pulsar the images. The digitized images (single images or cine-loop images)
(VID-200) (VID-300) (VID-400) (VID-500) can be processed after the investigation.
Video-mix and Standard Standard Standard Standard Image processing includes the following functions:
image digitizing  Contrast enhancement.
Cine-loop Not possible Not possible Standard Standard
 Filtering, addition, subtraction.
digitizing  Frequency analysis.
 Measurement of angles and distances.
Video image Not possible Optional Optional Optional
processing

High resolution Not possible Not possible Not possible Standard

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1.3.5 High resolution video input 1.4 Manuals and online help
The high resolution video input option lets you digitize high resolution The Video User’s Manual provides all the information you need about
video signals or non-standard video signals directly without the need the MMS Video option. It is assumed that you already know how to
for a scan-converter. This has further the advantage that the image perform measurements and analysis with the measurement system.
quality is better. This option however does not work with all high Refer to the manuals supplied with the system.
resolution input signals and its applicability needs to be checked for
each high resolution X-ray system. The chapters in the Video User’s Manual describe the following:
Chapter 1 Introduction gives a short introduction about the MMS
NOTE The high resolution video input option is only video options. Further it describes the computer
available in combination with the Pulsar video board. requirements for the video option.
Chapter 2 Installation describes how to install the video board and
video drivers.
Overview Chapter 3 Remote control and the video option describes the
1249 lines 50 Hz, 1024 lines 60 Hz, 525 lines 120 Hz, 625 lines video keys on the remote control.
100 Hz, More on request. Chapter 4 General video settings describes the settings in the
MMS software, which apply to all video configurations.
Chapter 5 Videomix and image digitizing describes how to enable
videomix and how to digitize images during an
investigation. Further it describes how to display and print
the digitized images during analysis.
Chapter 6 Cine-loops describes the settings, which are specific for
this option and how to digitize a cine-loop during an
investigation. Further it describes how to replay and print
the images of a loop during analysis.
Chapter 7 Video image processing describes all the possibilities of
the video processing software.

MMS advises everyone to read chapter 4 and chapter 5 because they

apply to all video configurations. Chapter 6 and chapter 7 only need to
be read when the corresponding options are available.

On-line help
The MMS software contains a context sensitive help system. It
contains a table of contents and help for many topics.

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1.5 Video boards

Table of Contents. When you open the help for the first time,
click the Help button at the top of the screen or select Help | Contents
from the menu. The table of contents gives general information about
1.5.1 CronosPlus video board
the program and describes the most important topics of the help file.
Click on a blue underlined text to show the related help topic. The CronosPlus is a standard monochrome and composite color
analog frame grabber for extremely cost-sensitive imaging
applications. This board is available in a PCI form factor and can
acquire different types of standard video formats using its video
decoder.

Figure 1.1 Online help

Help on a specific item

When you want to know something about a specific item, you can
Figure 1.2 CronosPlus video board
search for this item in the help file. Click on the Index button to search
in a list. Click on the Search button to type the word you want to
search for. Information about the item will be displayed.
The CronosPlus is capable of grabbing a great variety of video signals,
Help on a menu item for example:
From the menu, all possible actions can be started and settings can be  PAL image: 768 x 572 pixels, taking up approx. 440 kB per image,
with a maximum grab speed of 25 images per second.
changed. Select a menu item with the cursor and press the F1 key on
the keyboard. Help about the menu item is shown.  NTSC image: 640x480 pixels, taking up approx. 308 kB per image,
with a maximum grab speed of 30 images per second.
Help on a window
The restrictions of the CronosPlus board are as follows:
When you use the software, you will see a lot of windows with a Help
button on it. When the Help button or the F1 key on the keyboard is  no cine-loop video option available.
pressed, the help about the window is shown.  no high resolution video input option available.

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1.5.2 Meteor II video board 1.5.3 Pulsar video board

The Meteor II is a single-slot PCI frame grabber. In addition to the The frame grabber, which is used to digitize images in the MMS
Meteor II board, you will require a separate VGA-board. The Meteor windows software is the Pulsar board. The Pulsar board is a single-slot
board provides you with a cost-effective solution if you want to add PCI frame grabber that features on-board grab display capabilities and
video capabilities to your MMS system. real-time transfers to Host memory. It has a 2 MB image frame buffer
and a 2 MB graphics overlay (VGA) frame buffer for non-destructive
overlay capabilities.

Figure 1.3 Meteor II video board

Like the Pulsar, the Meteor II is capable of grabbing a great variety of Figure 1.4 Pulsar video board
video signals, for example:
 PAL image: 768 x 572 pixels, taking up approx. 440 kB per image, The Pulsar is capable of grabbing a great variety of video signals, for
with a maximum grab speed of 25 images per second. example:
 NTSC image: 640x480 pixels, taking up approx. 308 kB per image,  PAL image: 768 x 572 pixels, taking up approx. 440 kB per image,
with a maximum grab speed of 30 images per second. with a maximum grab speed of 25 images per second.
 NTSC image: 640x480 pixels, taking up approx. 308 kB per image,
The restrictions of the Meteor II board are as follows: with a maximum grab speed of 30 images per second.
 no high resolution video input option available.  Non-standard video signal: maximum resolution of 1024x1024 at a
maximum of 30 images per second. Only with the High Resolution
option.

The memory size of the image can be calculated by multiplying the

width and height of the image (in pixels). The resulting value is the
approximate size of the image in bytes.

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1.5.4 Software possibilities video boards Analysis software

The video board you are using determines the software possibilities in Cronosplus Cronosplus Meteor II Pulsar
the measurement and in the analysis program. Below you will find an (VID-200) (VID-300) (VID-400) (VID-500)
overview.
Cine-loop Not possible Not possible + +
Measurement software
X-ray update when + + + +
moving mouse
Cronosplus Cronosplus Meteor II Pulsar
(VID-200) (VID-300) (VID-400) (VID-500) Display X-ray full At mouse + + +
screen click
PAL/NTSC + + + +
Display X-ray (1:4) + + + +
Selectable capture - + + + 25%
window
Display X-ray - + + +
Video image - + + + (1:16) 6%
rotation 90/180
Overlay (X-ray on + + + +
Maximum number 10 99 99 99 top of graphs)
of images
Underlay (X-ray - + + +
Display X-ray full - + + + behind graphs)
screen
Pint video image in + + + +
Display X-ray (1:4) + + + + standard report
25%
Special video - + + +
Display X-ray - + + + report printing
(1:16) 6%

Overlay (X-ray on + + + +
top of graphs)

Underlay (X-ray - + + +
behind graphs)

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1.6 Computer requirements NOTE When using the Matrox CronosPlus or the Matrox
Meteor II video board, it is recommended to use
The recommended computer configuration for the MMS windows Matrox MGA display board (for example the G 450 or
software with video option depends on the system used. G 550), or the Intel VGA card integrated into your
computer, or any other VGA that supports fast linear
memory accesses. The display of the video images
Solar UPS-2020 UD-2000 Libra+ during the investigation is than much smoother.
Processor Pentium IV Pentium IV Pentium IV Pentium IV

Clock speed 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz

Internal memory 512 Mb. 512 Mb. 512 Mb. 512 Mb.

Operating system Windows Windows Windows Windows

2000, XP* 2000, XP* 2000, XP* 2000, XP*

Hard disk 80 Gb 80 Gb 80 Gb 80 Gb

Free PCI slots 2 2 2 2

Floppydisk drive 3.5" 3.5" 3.5" 3.5"

CD-RW 1 1 1 1

Soundcard / 1 1 1 1
speakers

USB ports 2 3 2 2

Parallel port - - 0 or 1 0 or 1
(printer) (printer)

Serial channels - 1 or 2 1 1

Mouse 2 button 2 button 2 button 2 button

* Windows XP can not be used with the VID-500 Pulsar board.

Computers that are going to be used with the Video option

(CronosPlus, Meteor II, Pulsar), must be checked in advance whether
they work with each other. Note: The CronosPlus and Meteor II boards
both need a VGA card (not for Pulsar board).

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2 Installation 2.2 Installation Cronosplus board

2.2.1 Insert Cronosplus board in computer
2.1 Delivery
Insert the Cronosplus board in the computer as follows:
The MMS video option is delivered with the following components:  Before opening the computer, check the following, to avoid
 A video digitizer board: Cronosplus, Pulsar or Meteor II. damaging your computer:
MMS advises to use the Matrox G 450 or G 550 VGA card with the  Ensure that the relative humidity of your work area is at least
CronosPlus and Meteor II board. 50%.
 A cable to connect the X-ray equipment with the digitizer board.  Turn off the power to your computer and peripherals.
 A USB key which enables the options that you have ordered:  Drain static electricity from your body by touching a metal part of
video digitizing (to enable videomix and digitizer), video processing, the computer chassis before you install or remove anything from
video cine-loops, and/or high resolution (to enable digitization of your system.
high resolution video signals).  Remove the cover from your computer.
 A CD-ROM with the MMS software and drivers.  Check if the computer has an empty PCI slot. If the computer does
not have an empty slot, remove a PCI board from your system to
NOTE When using the Matrox CronosPlus or the Matrox make room for the Cronosplus board.
Meteor II video board, it is recommended to use  If there is a metal plate at the back of the empty slot, remove it.
Matrox MGA display board (for example the G 450 or Keep the screw from the top of the plate handy to anchor the
G 550), or the Intel VGA card integrated into your Cronosplus once it is installed.
computer, or any other VGA that supports fast linear  Carefully position the Cronosplus in the selected PCI slot.
memory accesses. The display of the video images  Once the board is perfectly aligned, press it firmly but carefully into
during the investigation is than much smoother. the slot.
 Anchor the board by replacing the screw that you removed before.
Contact your distributor if any part mentioned above is missing.  Close the computer with the cover.
 Connect your monitor to the Cronosplus board.
 Turn on your computer.

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2.2.2 Prepare Windows NOTE When using the Matrox Cronosplus, it is

recommended to use Matrox MGA display board (for
Follow the instructions below to install the drivers and MMS software. example the G 450 or G 550), or the Intel VGA card
The Cronosplus board can only be used from MMS software integrated into your computer, or any other VGA that
version 8.2, with Windows 2000 or Windows XP. supports fast linear memory accesses. The display of
the video images during the investigation is than
Install the software as follows: much smoother.
 Insert the MMS CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
 Install the MMS software. Also make sure that every other device in your computer is working
 Run d:\VidSetup. The window ‘Video setup selection’ is displayed. correctly and has the appropriate drivers installed. This can be verified
 Select the video digitizer card VID-200/300 (CronosPlus) and click in the Windows Device Manager. The Device Manager can be started
the Install button. The window ‘Matrox Imaging Master Setup’ is by selecting Start | Settings | Control Panel | System and then clicking
displayed. on the TAB Device Manager.
 Select MIL under Redistribution and click the Continue button.
The window ‘Setup’ is displayed.
 Click the Next button to display the window ‘License Agreement’.
 Click the Agree button to display the window ‘Matrox Imaging
Products’.
 Select the destination folder, and click the Next button. The window
‘Matrox Imaging Driver’ is displayed.
 Select the CronosPlus board driver and click the Next button. The
window ‘CronosPlus setup’ is displayed.
 Select No (question floppy disk), and click the Next button. The
window ‘Matrox DMA Manager’ is displayed.
 Select the number of megabytes and click the Next button. The
window ‘Matrox Imaging Products redistribution’ is displayed.
 Click OK to copy the files to your system.
 Restart the computer by clicking the Finish button.
Change DMA size
You can change the DMA size later. Start c:\mms-win\Progrm\
Milconfig and enter another size. This size must be smaller than half of
the RAM memory. Note: this will effect the ‘normal’ memory. For
example a PC with 256 Mb RAM, in which 128 Mb is set as DMA, will
work as a PC with 128Mb RAM memory. For WIN2000 256 Mb is
preferred. For urodynamic and gastro-intestinal investigations 4 or 8
Mb is good enough.

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2.3 Installation Meteor II board  Use a standard BNC video cable to connect the video source [1].
 Connect the monitor to the VGA board.
2.3.1 Insert Meteor II board in computer  Turn on your computer.

To insert the Meteor II board in the computer, act as follows:

 Before opening the computer, check the following, to avoid 2.3.2 Prepare Windows
damaging your computer:
 Ensure that the relative humidity of your work area is at least Follow the instructions below to install the drivers and MMS software.
50%. The Video option in software version 8 can be used with
 Turn off the power to your computer and peripherals. Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
 Drain static electricity from your body by touching a metal part of
the computer chassis before you install or remove anything from Install the software as follows:
your system.  Insert the MMS CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
 Remove the cover from your computer.  Install the MMS software.
 Check if the computer has an empty PCI slot. If the computer does  Run d:\VidSetup. The window ‘Video setup selection’ is displayed.
not have an empty slot, remove a PCI board from your system to  Select the video digitizer card VID-400 (Meteor II) and click the
make room for the Meteor board. Install button. The window ‘Matrox Imaging Master Setup’ is
 If there is a metal plate at the back of the empty slot, remove it. displayed.
Keep the screw from the top of the plate handy to anchor the  Select MIL under Redistribution and click the Continue button.
Meteor once it is installed. The window ‘Setup’ is displayed.
 Carefully position the Meteor II board over the selected PCI slot as  Click the Next button to display the window ‘License Agreement’.
illustrated below in figure 2.1.  Click the Agree button to display the window ‘Matrox Imaging
 Slide the board into the slot. Make sure that the metal plate at the Products’.
back of the Meteor II board slips down the opening left by the blank  Select the destination folder, and click the Next button. The window
metal plate you removed before. ‘Matrox Imaging Driver’ is displayed.
 Once the board is perfectly aligned, press it firmly but carefully into  Select the Meteor-II/Standard board driver and click the Next
the slot. button. The window ‘Meteor II setup’ is displayed.
 Anchor the board by replacing the screw that you removed before.  Select No (question floppy disk), and click the Next button. The
 Close the computer with the cover. window ‘Matrox DMA Manager’ is displayed.
 Select the number of megabytes and click the Next button. The
window ‘Matrox Imaging Products redistribution’ is displayed.
 Click OK to copy the files to your system.
 Restart the computer by clicking the Finish button.

Figure 2.1 Meteor II board

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Change DMA size 2.4 Installation Pulsar board

You can change the DMA size later when for example the size of cine-
loops increase, Start c:\mms-win\Progrm\ Milconfig and enter another
size. This size must be smaller than half of the RAM memory. Note:
2.4.1 Insert Pulsar board in computer
this will effect the ‘normal’ memory. For example a PC with 256 Mb
Insert the Pulsar board in the computer as follows:
RAM, in which 128 Mb is set as DMA, will work as a PC with 128Mb
RAM memory. For WIN2000 256 Mb is preferred. For urodynamic
 Before opening the computer, check the following, to avoid
damaging your computer:
investigations 4 or 8 Mb is good enough, for gastro-enterology
investigations with large cine-loops 128 Mb maybe necessary.
 Ensure that the relative humidity of your work area is at least
50%.
NOTE When using the Matrox Meteor II, it is recommended
 Turn off the power to your computer and peripherals.
to use Matrox MGA display board (for example the
 Drain static electricity from your body by touching a metal part of
the computer chassis before you install or remove anything from
G 450 or G 550), or the Intel VGA card integrated
your system.
into your computer, or any other VGA that supports
fast linear memory accesses. The display of the
 Remove the cover from your computer.
video images during the investigation is than much
 Take the VGA card out of the computer.
smoother.
 Check if the computer has an empty PCI slot that can host a full
length board. If the computer does not have an empty slot, remove
a PCI board from your system to make room for the Pulsar board.
Also make sure that every other device in your computer is working
correctly and has the appropriate drivers installed. This can be verified
WARNING Some computers have a large heat sink, which
in the Windows Device Manager. The Device Manager can be started
prevents long boards from using most PCI
by selecting Start | Settings | Control Panel | System and then clicking
board slots. The Pulsar must not touch the
on the TAB Device Manager.
heat sink, so choose a slot where the board
completely avoids it. If there is no suitable slot,
contact your computer dealer.

 If there is a metal plate at the back of the empty slot, remove it.
Keep the screw from the top of the plate handy to anchor the Pulsar
once it is installed.
 Before you install your board, ensure that the DIP switches are in off
position.

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 Slide the board into the slot. Make sure that the attached PCI board
retainer slides between the guides and that the metal plate at the
back of the Pulsar slips down the opening left by the blank metal
plate you removed before.
 Once the board is perfectly aligned, press it firmly but carefully into
the slot.
 Anchor the board by replacing the screw that you removed before.
 Close the computer with the cover.
 Connect your monitor to the Pulsar board.
Figure 2.2 Dipswitches on the Pulsar board should be OFF.
 Turn on your computer.

 Carefully position the Pulsar over the selected PCI slot as illustrated 2.4.2 Prepare Windows
below.
Follow the instructions below to install the drivers and MMS software.
The Video option in software version 8 can be used with
Windows 2000. Windows XP can not be used.

Install the software as follows:

 Insert the MMS CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
 Install the MMS software.
 Run d:\VidSetup. The window ‘Video setup selection’ is displayed.
 Select the video digitizer card VID-500 (Pulsar) and click the Install
button. The window ‘Matrox Imaging Master Setup’ is displayed.
 Select MGA drivers under Other products and click the Proceed
button. The window ‘Matrox Powerdesk setup’ is displayed.
 Select the language and click the Next button.
Figure 2.3 Position Pulsar board over PCI slot  Continue the procedure until you can restart the computer.
 Click the Finish to restart the computer.
 Run d:\VidSetup.
NOTE The Pulsar board has a PCI retainer attached to it.  Select MIL under Redistribution and click the Proceed button.
This is because most systems have both PCI and The window ‘Welcome’ is displayed.
wider slots. In these systems, the smaller PCI board  Click the Next button to display the window ‘Software License
needs a retainer to make it long enough to slide Agreement’.
between the guides and hold it firmly in place. If you  Click the Yes button to display the window ‘Matrox Imaging
have a PCI system where all the slots are PCI slots, Products’.
simply unscrew the PCI board retainer from the  Select the destination folder, and click the Next button. The window
Pulsar board. ‘Matrox Imaging Driver’ is displayed.
 Remove the  before VGA and select the Pulsar board driver.
 Click the Next button to display the window ‘Pulsar non-paged

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buffers’. 2.5 Check the installation

 Select the number of megabytes and click the Next button. The
window ‘Pulsar setup’ is displayed. To test the video software, start the MMS software by clicking the
 Select No (question floppy disk), and click the Next button. The Database button and complete the following steps:
window ‘Matrox Imaging Products redistribution’ is displayed.  Start the measurement software by clicking the corresponding
 Click OK to copy the files to your system. button, or select Investigation / New via the menu.
 Restart the computer by clicking the Finish button.  Select Settings | System settings from the menu.
 Click on the Video TAB.
Change DMA size  If you use a standard video source select either PAL or NTSC
If you want to change the DMA size later, when for example the size of depending on your video input.
cine-loops will increase, then you have to start d:\MIL 6.1  If you use a non-standard video input, click the Other check-box and
SP1\Milconfig\Milconfig. Enter another size. This size must be smaller select your video source from the combo-box. This option is only
than half of the RAM memory. Note: this will effect the ‘normal’ enabled if you have the high resolution video key installed.
memory. For example a PC with 256 Mb RAM, in which 128 Mb is set
as DMA, will work as a PC with 128Mb RAM memory. For WIN2000
256 Mb is preferred. For urodynamic investigations 4 or 8 Mb is good
enough, for gastro-enterology investigations with large cine-loops
128 Mb maybe necessary.

Figure 2.4 Video settings

 Click on OK when you are

done.
 Connect a video source to the
video board (Cronosplus,
Pulsar or Meteor II) by means
of the video cable delivered
with the video option.

 Click the button on the

button bar or select Settings |
Setup video via the menu. If the
installation went correctly, you
will now see the video image Figure 2.5 Video installation succeeded
appear in the window.

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2.6 Number of images to be digitized 2.8 Trouble shooting

When an investigation is started, the maximum number of images to be If you have problems in getting a video image to appear on your
digitized is shown on the screen. When to you want to be able to grab monitor after following the instructions, check the possible causes:
more images, there are two options:
 more images with same memory  Do you have a hardware resource conflict (IRQ, DMA or address) in
During video setup you can select an image part to digitize, so that your PC? Verify this in the Device Manager. Conflicts and warnings
you only grab the interesting part of the video signal (without black are indicated by red crosses and yellow exclamation marks in the
borders). This will significantly reduce the image size, and thereby device list. This kind of problem may exist when there are a lot of
the maximum number of images which can be grabbed increases. devices in your system, or when devices are not correctly
 more images with more memory configured.
If you want to be able to grab more full size images, or when
reducing the image size does not result in the number images you  Check whether there are devices listed under Other devices in the
need, you have to increase the available memory for the video Device Manager. If such a device is present, this often indicates that
board (refer to the next paragraph). Windows detected a device for which it cannot provide an
appropriate driver. Remove this device from within the Device
NOTE Never assign more than half of the computer’s Manager (as described above for the Pulsar) and reboot your
memory to the Cronosplus, Pulsar or Meteor II. system. If Windows detects this device again, then try to provide the
correct driver for it (on a disk from the hardware manufacturer).
Correctly configuring all the devices in your PC is important to avoid
2.7 Check / Change memory allocation potential conflicts and other hardware related problems.

The video board uses part of the computer’s memory to store digitized  Did you select the right video signal type in the protocol settings
video images. This memory part is not available for other programs. before performing a measurement?
During the MMS software installation, 8 MB of memory will be allocated
for the video board. After installation of the board, check the following:  Has the video source been powered on and has it been properly
 Check if other programs are noticeably slower than before. If this is connected to the Cronosplus/Pulsar/Meteor II board?
the case, decrease the amount of memory for the video board.
 When your PC only has 16 MB of memory, the standard amount of  If your computer has only 16 megabytes of RAM, please adjust the
memory for the video board will be 0 MB. Increase this to 3 MB. amount of memory that has been assigned to (for example) the
Pulsar. Select Pulsar PCI frame grabber from the Device Manager.
To check or change the memory allocation for the video board, start Click Properties and the TAB DMA Memory. The lower part of the
c:\mms-win\Progrm\ Milconfig and enter another size. Due to hardware window shows the text Status. If it says OK then you don’t need to
limitations it is not possible to use more than half of the memory for adjust the DMA buffer size. If it says Error in VXD then you have to
Cronosplus, Pulsar or Meteor II grab buffers. So do not allocate more decrease the amount of memory allocated to the video board. Click
buffer space than half of the memory available. For example if you on Hexadecimal and change the number of bytes to assign to the
have 32 MB installed in your system, never allocate more than 16 MB digitizer. Change the value to 300000 (hexadecimal), which is 3
for Cronosplus, Pulsar or Meteor II grab memory. After changing the megabytes. Click OK twice and reboot your PC. After re-booting,
DMA buffer size, restart the computer in order to activate the changes. check the status again using the same procedure. If it is not OK, try
reducing the amount of memory a little more.

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Shift+39 50 % video, image behind the curves.

3 Remote control and the video option 40 25 % video, image on top of the curves.
During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
3.1 Introduction (from software version 8.2).
Shift+40 25 % video, image behind the curves.
During measurement, many video functions can be activated by using 41 Hide video image.
an infrared remote control and receiver. The MMS measurement
systems are supported by one of the following infrared wireless remote
controls:

 RC-2000.
 RC-1000.
 RC-1100.

3.2 RC-2000
The RC-2000 contains 55 keys and a Shift key. The section below
explains the functions of the video keys on the RC-2000. The key
numbers in the text refer to the numbers on the remote control
diagram (see figure 3.1).

1 Shift key. Press this key together with another key to

activate the SHIFT function for that key.
Shift+16 Brightness up/down. Increase or decrease the
brightness of the video image during the pre-test or the
investigation.
32 Arm cine-loop. Arm the system to start the cine-loop
digitization at the next trigger.
33 Store. Store a video image in computer memory.
Start digitization of a cine-loop when digitization mode is
set to cine-loop.
36 Toggle single images / cine-loops.
38 100 % video, image on top of the curves.
During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
(from software version 8.2).
Shift+38 100 % video, image behind the curves.
39 50 % video, image on top of the curves.
Figure 3.1 RC-2000
During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
(from software version 8.2).

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3.3 RC-1000 8 Store. Store a video image in computer memory.

Start digitization of a cine-loop when digitization mode is
The RC-1000 contains 26 keys. The section below explains the set to cine-loop.
functions of the video keys on the RC-1000. The key numbers in the 18 100 % video, image on top of the curves (pre-test only).
text refer to the numbers on the remote control diagram (see During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
figure 3.2). (from software version 8.2).
Shift+18 100 % video, image behind the curves (pre-test only)
19 50 % video, image on top of the curves (pre-test only).
During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
(from software version 8.2).
Shift+19 50 % video, image behind the curves (pre-test only)
20 25 % video, image on top of the curves (pre-test only).
During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
(from software version 8.2).
Shift+20 25 % video, image behind the curves (pre-test only)
21 Hide video image (pre-test only).

Figure 3.2 RC-1000

23 Shift key. Press this key together with another key to

activate the SHIFT function for that key.
Shift+10 Brightness up/down. Increase or decrease the
brightness of the video image during the pre-test or the
investigation.
Shift+8 Arm cine-loop. Arm the system to start the cine-loop
digitization at the next trigger.

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3.4 RC-1100 19 Large video window, overlay (pre-test).

During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
The RC-1100 contains 26 keys. The section below explains the (from software version 8.2).
functions of the video keys on the RC-1100. The key numbers in the Shift 19 Large video window, on top (pre-test).
text refer to the numbers on the remote control diagram (see figure 20 Medium video window, overlay (pre-test).
below). During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
(from software version 8.2).
Shift 20 Medium video window, on top (pre-test).
21 Small video window, overlay (pre-test).
During cine-loop digitization, change video display size
(from software version 8.2).
Shift 21 Small video window, on top (pre-test).
22 No video window, only graphs (pre-test).

Figure 3.3 RC-1100

24 Shift key. Press this key together with another key to

activate the SHIFT function for that key.
16 Toggle single images / cine-loops.
17 Arm cine-loop. Arm the system to start the cine-loop
digitization at the next trigger.
18 Store. Store a video image in computer memory.
Start digitization of a cine-loop when digitization mode is
set to cine-loop.

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4 General video settings standard from the combo-box.

 When you want to digitize a video signal coming from a video
recorder, then check the Video input from VCR box.
4.1 Introduction
This chapter discusses the settings, which can be changed in the 4.2.2 Video memory allocation
software. These settings are valid for the videomix and image digitizing
option and the cine-loop option. The video memory allocation setting applies only to digitization of
single images and not to the digitization of cine-loops.

4.2 Settings before an investigation In the edit field Max. number of video images on the Video TAB you
can set the maximum number of video images you will ever need to
digitize during an investigation. The software will only allocate memory
4.2.1 Video input signal for the maximum number of images, during the start of an investigation.
The lower the number the less memory will be allocated and the more
The first time you use the video system, you have to select the type of memory will be free for the other software running on your computer.
video input signal standard. There are two standard signals: CCIR More free memory means better performance of your computer.
(PAL) and RS-170 (NTSC). Most European countries have CCIR as
standard. RS-170 is standard in the USA, Canada, Japan and Taiwan.

To select the video input signal, do the following:

4.2.3 Protocols
 Activate Settings | System settings from the main menu of the A number of settings to configure the video system to your needs are
measurement program.
 Click the Video TAB. incorporated in the protocols. On a standard system 9 different
protocols can be defined. In each protocol, the video settings can be
defined for all available investigations separately.

These video protocol settings can be changed as follows:

 Activate Settings | Edit protocol from the main menu of the
measurement program.
 Select the protocol from the sub-menu, you want to edit. The
protocol edit dialog window will appear.
 Select the appropriate investigation by clicking on the
corresponding TAB.
 Every investigation TAB page contains the field Enable video.
Figure 4.1 Select video input signal This field should be set to Always or Optional to be able to see the
video signal and digitize images during the investigation.
 Select a standard video input signal (PAL or NTSC).
 When you want to digitize from a video source without a standard
video output, you need the high resolution video option. When
available, check the Other radio button and select the appropriate

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 Rotate video image after investigation: On, Off

Video image can be rotated before they are stored with the
investigation. Under some circumstances this may be desired. The
rotation angle can be selected from the drop-down list and is either
90 or 180 degrees.
When you enable 180 degrees for Cronosplus and Meteor II
boards, rotation will happen real-time.

 Specific weight contrast liquid: 800..1300 (1100) gram per litre.

Enter the specific gravity of the X-ray contrast liquid, you are using.
This liquid is usually much heavier than the saline solution for
normal infusion. If videomix is activated, this value is used to
calculate the infused volume and flow. Otherwise the value, set in
Figure 4.2 Set the field Enable Video to Yes. the protocol is used.

 Video digitize resolution: Low resolution, High resolution.

 Press the Video button The digitization resolution determines in which resolution the
 A new dialogue window with video settings will appear. You can set images are digitized. The high resolution will digitize the image on
General video settings and Cine-loop settings (if the cine-loop the highest possible resolution. The low resolution setting will
option is installed). For cine-loop settings see chapter 6. digitize the images on half of the maximum resolution.

NOTE High resolution images will use 4 times more memory

and disk space than low resolution images.

NOTE This setting has nothing to do with the high resolution

video input option.

When cine-loop option is installed:

 Video digitize mode: Digitize single images, Digitize cine-loops.
Digitize mode on Digitize single images will enable digitization of
one image at the press of the Store key. Digitize mode on Digitize
cine-loops will enable the cine-loop mode.
Figure 4.3 General video settings

The following settings can be changed (possible values are shown in

Italics; default setting in Bold Italics).

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4.2.4 Setup video capture window  Move the mouse, so that the drawn rectangle encapsulates the
desired capture window.
The software contains an option to select a part of the video signal to  Release the mouse button.
be digitized, the so called video capture window. When a video capture
window is defined, only that part of the video signal is displayed and The video image inside the rectangle is shown and digitized during the
digitized. This has the advantage that the captured images use less investigation. The area outside the rectangle is not digitized.
memory during the investigation and less disk space when stored. The
part of the video signal, which will be digitized is further referred to as
the capture window.

The capture window can be set as follows:

 From the main menu of the measurement software, select Settings |
Setup video, or click on or .
 A window, displaying the current incoming video signal is displayed
now. You can now select the video capture window with the mouse.

Figure 4.4 Size capture window

 Move the mouse to one of the corners of the desired video capture
window.
 Press the left mouse button, and keep it pressed.

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4.3 Settings during pre-test / investigation

Click the Set grab mode button to select the Video images
digitization button or the Cine-loops digitization button.
4.3.1 Adjust brightness
The brightness of the video image can be adjusted during the pre-test
or investigation in the measurement software. Act as follows: 4.3.3 Video window positioning
 Press the SHIFT key together with the EMG amplification Up key
on the remote control to increase image brightness. The position of the video image on the screen can be established
 Press the SHIFT key together with the EMG amplification Down independent of the display method.
key on the remote control to decrease image brightness.
 You can also use the Brightness track bar at the status bar. You can change the position of the windows as follows:
 Press key V1, V2 or V3 on the remote control to select the window
size and display it on top of the curves.
4.3.2 Video window display method
 Move the mouse cursor over the video window.
 Press the left mouse button and keep it depressed.
 Move the mouse. The window will move accordingly.
There are several ways to display the video image. The video image
can be displayed 'behind' or 'on top of' the curves. Also, the video
 Release the mouse button when the window is at the desired
position.
image can be minimized and displayed in a small window anywhere on
the screen. All these possibilities can be selected by means of the V1, The position of the video window will be saved. In subsequent
V2, V3, V4 keys on the infra-red remote control. investigations the position of the video window will be the same.
V1 Full screen video image, image on top of the curves.
V2 Video image displayed at half of the original size, image
on top of the curves.
V3 Video image displayed at a quarter of the original size,
image on top of the curves.
Shift V1 Full screen video image, image behind the curves
Shift V2 Video image displayed at half of the original size, image
behind the curves.
Shift V3 Video image displayed at a quarter of the original size,
image behind the curves.
V4 Video image completely hidden.

NOTE For the RC-1000/RC-1100 these keys only function

in the pre-test.

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4.4 Settings during analysis 4.4.2 Video overlay mode

4.4.1 Video image size Video images can be displayed in one of two video overlay modes:
 Video on top of graphs.
During analysis, the displayed image size can be selected.  Graphs on top of video.
Act as follows:
 From the menu select Video. You can toggle between these two modes by selecting Video | Video
 Select Small, Medium, Large or Full. on top. When the current overlay mode is Video on top, this option is
preceded by a checkmark ().

4.4.3 Video window positioning

The position of the video images on screen can be changed.
Act as follows:
 Make sure that the video overlay mode is Video on top.
Refer to § 4.4.2.
Figure 4.5 Select video  Move the mouse cursor over the video image.
image size  Press the left mouse button and keep it depressed.
 Drag the video window to the desired position.
The currently active video window size is preceded by a bullet ().  Release the mouse button.
 Small Video window is displayed at ¼of full size. The window position can be set for each video window size
 Medium Video window is displayed at ½ of full size. independently. The position of the video image on top of the curves will
 Large Video window is displayed at ¾of full size. be the same as the position of the video image behind the curves.
 Full Video window is displayed at full size. However when graphs are shown on top, the video image will always
appear in the graph area. If necessary it is moved so that it is
completely displayed in the graph area.

The video window positions remain the same between different

analysis sessions. The video window positioning does not need to be
repeated.

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5 Videomix and image digitizing 5.2 Videomix during investigation

To switch on videomix, act as follows:
5.1 Introduction  Activate Settings | Edit protocol from the main menu of the
measurement program.
When the MMS video option is installed, the videomix mode can be  Select the protocol from the sub-menu, you want to edit. The
activated in the investigation protocol. In the videomix mode, the video protocol edit dialog window will appear.
signal from the X-ray equipment is visible on screen together with the  Select the appropriate investigation by clicking on the
measured graphs. During the investigation the video images can be corresponding TAB.
digitized by simply pressing a button. The digitized video images are  Check that the field Enable video in the investigation protocol is set
stored on disk for future reference and processing. to Always.
 Before the investigation is started, size the video image (§ 4.2.4).
In case there is no video signal available at the start of an investigation, This has to be done only once.
you will receive the question ‘if you want to keep the video option
active’. When you confirm this question, you can connect a video signal  When the investigation is started, the button is shown during
at each moment during the investigation and start digitizing images. the pre-test. When this button is clicked, video-mix mode is active.
 Now you see the video image and the graphs on the screen.
TIP Instead of an X-ray or Ultrasound video signal,  You can now adjust the brightness, size and position of the video
any other video source may be used. For image as explained in § 4.3.
experiments with the videomix and digitization  When the investigation is started the image will stay on the screen.
option, it may be helpful to connect the system to
a video recorder. Let the video recorder play a
pre-recorded tape and use this video signal to
practice with.

Figure 5.1 Videomix during investigation

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5.3 Image digitization during investigation 5.4 Video image display during analysis
During the investigation, video images can be digitized. When an investigation, during which images were digitized, is
reviewed, the digitized video images are loaded from disk. The
NOTE When you have the cine-loop option, you should locations at which images were digitized are indicated with Video
select the single grab mode in the video settings for image markers.
this investigation in order to digitize single images.
See § 4.2.3. The cursor position determines which image is displayed on the
screen. The image displayed is the last image digitized at the current
During the investigation a video image can be digitized as follows: location of the cursor in the investigation. If the cursor is in front of the
 Press the STORE key on the remote control, òr first video image marker, no image is displayed.
When the cursor is moved beyond a video image marker, the image
 Click the on the button. belonging to this marker is displayed.

Picture snap marker You can adjust the size, overlay mode and position of the image
When an image is digitized, the video image freezes for a short displayed on the screen (see § 4.4).
moment. A short (yellow) picture snap marker will appear below the
graphs. This marker scrolls with the graphs.
5.5 Video images in printed report
Number of images
On the status bar a panel called VIDEO IMAGES is visible. It shows the When video images are present in the investigation, they can be
number of images which still can be digitized during the investigation. included in the printed report in the following way:
When the number of images which can be digitized reaches 0, the
 Select Print | Print report.
button will be disabled. No more images can be digitized.
The maximum number of images which can be stored depends on the
 A selection window with all print options is activated. To include
video images in the report, check the Video images check-box.
available memory for the video board (§ 2.6) the resolution (§ 4.2.3)
and the size (§ 4.2.4) of the images. The maximum number of images
 When the report is being printed, a video image selection window is
displayed. All images which are selected, will be printed in the
is 900. report.
Save video images
The digitized video images will be saved together with the investigation
when the investigation is ended. The message video images are saved
is displayed in the status bar. This may take a while.

Switch to cine-loop digitization

Use the button to switch between single image and cine-loop

digitization.

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5.6 Process image

When the video option is installed without the processing option, some
limited options are available. To start the image processing program,
act as follows:

 Click the Display video image button or , òr

 Select Video | Video processing, òr
 Click with the right mouse button on the label of one of the picture
snap markers and select Process image from the pop-up menu,
which is shown.

Figure 5.2 Select video image to include in report

With the menu option Image | Select all and Image | Select none,
you can select all respective none of the present video images. To Figure 5.4 Start processing
select individual images, click with the mouse on the appropriate
image. When an image is selected, a green border will be drawn
around the image. The various options are:
 After selecting the images, click the button to print the report.
Image | Zoom In
Zooms in on the image.

Image | Zoom Out

Zooms out on the image.

Selection | Previous image

Selects the previous image in the investigation. If the current image is
the first image in the investigation, the computer will give a beep.

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Print
This option prints the current video image on the default printer. The
currently displayed image is printed together with an information
header.

Figure 5.8 Print video image

When images are printed, they often appear darker than displayed on
the screen. To compensate for this symptom you can check the Raise
Figure 5.7 Process video image brightness for print option. When activated, the software will raise the
brightness of the images before they are printed. In this way the
images will be printed in the same brightness as displayed on the
screen.
Selection | Next Image
Selects the next image in the investigation. If the current image is the
last image in the investigation, the computer will give a beep.

Selection | Select all

All images will be displayed (minimized) in a window. You can pick one
of the images, by clicking on it with the mouse.

Magnify
Click the Magnify button to zoom in on interesting parts of the image.

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6 Cine-loops 6.2 Cine-loop settings

To change the cine-loop settings, do the following:
6.1 Introduction  Activate Settings | Edit protocol from the main menu of the
measurement program.
The Cine-loop option is used to digitize a number of consecutive  Select the protocol from the sub-menu, you want to edit.
images. They can be played back as a cine-loop, a short film. The protocol edit dialog window will appear.
A cine-loop can have up to 900 images. Depending on the video  Select the appropriate investigation by clicking on the
standard used, up to 25 (PAL) or 30 (NTSC) images per second can corresponding TAB.
be digitized.  Press the Video button
 A new dialogue window with video settings will appear. Set the
NOTE The number of images per second cannot be higher video digitization mode to Digitize cine-loops to enable loop
than the sample rate selected in the investigation digitization during the investigation.
protocol.  Click the Cine-loop TAB.
During the investigation, the loop digitization can be started manually
by pressing a button. Loop digitization can also be triggered
automatically by occurrence of a certain event. The digitized video
images are stored on disk for future reference and processing.

In case there is no video signal available at the start of an investigation,

you will receive the question ‘if you want to keep the video option
active’. When you confirm this question, you can connect a video signal
at each moment during the investigation and start digitizing images.

TIP Instead of an X-ray or Ultrasound video signal, any

other video source may be used. For experiments with
the cine-loop option, it may be helpful to connect the
system to a video recorder. Let the video recorder play
Figure 6.2 Cine-loop settings
a pre-recorded tape and use this video signal to practice
with.
The following settings can be changed:

 Image digitize rate: 1..25 (or 30, for NTSC).

The image digitize rate can be specified here as the number of
images digitized during a certain time. In the first field you enter the
number of images which should be digitized during a certain time
span. In the second field you enter the time span during which the
images should be digitized.

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Table 6.1 Examples of image digitize rates for a cine-loop number can be equal or less than the total number of
images/seconds in the cine-loop. The remaining number of images
Description Number of images Time span is digitized before the trigger event. When one of the other fields on
the is changed the values in are automatically adjusted.
10 images per second 10 1
 Trigger type: Pressure, Flow, Voided volume.
2.5 images per second 5 2 The trigger type determines on which channel should be triggered.
The Flow and Voided volume trigger channels are only present for
30 images per 7 seconds 30 7 urodynamic systems.

 Trigger criterion: None, Level or Slope.

The maximum image digitize rate depends on: This field is only enabled when the trigger type equals pressure.
 Select None if you do not want the loop digitization to be started
 Sample rate automatically by a trigger.
The number of images per second can never be higher than the  Select Level if you want to start digitizing at the moment the
number of samples per second measured. So, a sample rate of selected pressure value is reached.
10 Hz will limit the number of images to 10 per second.  Select Slope if you want to start digitizing when the defined
 Video Standard of your country. pressure rise is detected. Slope triggering is useful when you
Most European countries have the PAL video standard. PAL measure a pressure, which is known to increase rapidly when
allows a digitize rate of 25 images per second. In the USA, the desired event occurs. For instance, the rise in pharyngeal
Canada, Japan and Taiwan the NTSC video standard is used. pressure at swallowing.
This allows a maximum of 30 images per second. See § 4.2.1.
NOTE It is always possible to start loop digitization manually
 Cine-loop duration [time] s = [2..900] images. by pressing the Store key on the remote control.
The number of seconds in the first field determines the number of
seconds that will be digitized for each cine-loop. The number of
images in the second field determines the number of images that TIP When triggering should occur on a pressure channel,
will be digitized for each cine-loop. When one of the other fields on it is recommended to select Slope triggering, if
the is changed the values are automatically adjusted. The actual possible. Slope triggering has the advantage that it is
number which can be digitized depends on the available memory not an absolute pressure value. You have no
and the resolution setting. When the investigation commences it will problems with slow variations in pressure or wrong
check if sufficient memory is available. If not enough memory is zero levels.
available the software will issue a warning.
 Trigger channel: 1..6.
 Time after trigger [time] s = [1..Number of images] images. When the trigger type is set to pressure, triggering can be done on
The number entered in the first field determines how many seconds one of the available pressure channels. The available channels
should be stored after the trigger occurred. The number of seconds depend on your system configuration.
can be 1..number of seconds of the cine loop duration in the field
above. The number entered in the second field determines how
many images should be stored after the trigger occurred. This

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 Trigger value: 6.3 Cine-loop digitization during the investigation

The trigger value depends on the trigger channel selected.
Pressure: 1..200 cmH2O or cmH2O/s. Loop digitization during an investigation can be started manually or
Flow: 1..50 ml/s automatically triggered by occurrence of a certain event. In the status
Voided volume: 1..1000 ml bar, you will find the loop status displayed by a colour.
The trigger value is the level that should be reached to start the
digitization process. Red Cine-loops are digitized at this moment.
Yellow Digitization of a cine-loop is ready. You can start digitization
manually now. Digitization can not be started automatically
triggered by occurrence of a certain event.
Green You can give a command to digitize a cine-loop (manually or
triggered automatically).

Manual start of loop digitization

To start the loop digitization manual do the following:
 Press the Store key on the remote control, òr
 Click the button.

Automatic start of loop digitization

The loop can be triggered on 4 different events:
 certain pressure level, e.g. pressure higher than 100 cm H2O.
 certain pressure rise, e.g. pressure rises faster than 50 cm H2O/s.
 certain flow rate (Urology only).
 certain voided volume (Urology only).
If a trigger criterion is set, the system must be armed before the trigger
will have any effect. This allows you to determine when the digitization
starts. When the system is not armed, the message Waiting to arm
loop is displayed. To arm the system:
 Press the Arm key on the remote control. The message Waiting to
trigger loop is now shown. To un-arm, press the Arm key again.

After arming the system, it will wait until the selected trigger criterion
becomes true. The system will then save the selected number of
images before the trigger and the remaining number of images after
the trigger. Saving images before the trigger allows capturing images
from the past. Thus, you can digitize images in a window around the
trigger.

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Cine-loop marker 6.4 Cine-loop display during analysis

When a loop is digitized the button will be disabled and will stay When an investigation during which cine-loops were digitized, is
disabled until all the images of the cine-loop are digitized. A (blue) reviewed, the video images of the first loop are loaded from disk. The
cine-loop marker will appear on the graphs. This marker scrolls with locations at which loops were digitized are indicated with two cine-loop
the graphs. markers. When the cursor is moved between two cine-loop markers,
the last image digitized at the current location of the cursor in the
Number of cine-loops investigation is displayed on the screen. In the status bar the number of
On the status bar a panel called CINE-LOOPS is visible. It shows the the currently displayed images is displayed. If the cursor is not between
number of cine-loops which can still be digitized. When the number of two cine-loop markers, no image is displayed on the screen.
cine-loops which can be digitized reaches 0, the button will be When during an investigation more than one loop was digitized, only
disabled. No more cine-loops can be digitized. the images of the first loop are shown when the cursor is moved
The maximum number of cine-loops which can be stored depends on between the first two cine-loop markers. When the cursor is moved
the available memory for the video board (§ 2.6), the resolution between the other cine-loop markers no image is shown. This is
(§ 4.2.3) and the size (§ 4.2.4) of the images and the number of because only the images of one loop are loaded into memory.
images per loop. To see the images of another loop do the following:
Save video images
 Click with the right mouse button on the marker label of one of the
cine-loop markers.
The digitized cine-loops are saved during the investigation. The
message Saving images of loop is displayed in the status bar. This
 Select Activate cine-loop from the pop-up menu, which is shown.
may take a while. The Sample Rate and Display Rate influence the
time to free the digitize buffers.

NOTE  When the digitization mode is set to Digitize cine-

loops, it is not possible to digitize single images.
 The images can be displayed only in the actual
image size. The video window keys V1..V3 do not
resize the window. They can only be used to
select the video overlay mode (Video on top of
graphs/Graphs on top of video).

Switch to single-image digitization Figure 6.4 Activate cine-loop

Use the button to switch between cine-loop and single image

 Images of the activated cine-loop are loaded into memory. When
the cursor is moved between two cine-loop markers, only the
digitization.
images of the active cine-loop are displayed.

You can adjust the size, overlay mode and position of the images
displayed on the screen (see § 4.4). During analysis the images of the
cine-loop can be played as a motion picture (see § 6.6).

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6.5 Cine-loop images in printed report 6.6 Process image

When cine-loops are present in the investigation, the images of the When the video option is installed without the processing option, some
active cine-loop can be included in the printed report as follows: limited processing options are available.

 Select Print | Print report. To start the image processing program, do the following:
 A selection window with all print options is activated. To include  Move to cursor in front of the cine-loop to be processed.
video images in the report, check the Video images check-box.
 When the report is being printed, a video image selection window  Click the Display video image button or , òr
with all images of the active cine-loop is displayed. All images which  Select Video | Video processing, or
are selected, will be printed in the report.  Click with the right mouse button on the top of one of the cine-loop
markers and select Process cine-loop from the pop-up menu.

Figure 6.6 Start processing

The various options are:

Image | Zoom In
Figure 6.5 Select video image to include in report Zooms in on the video image.

With the menu option Image | Select all and Image | Select none,
you can select all respective none of the present video images. To Image | Zoom Out
select individual images, click with the mouse on the appropriate Zooms out on the video image.
image. When an image is selected, a border will be drawn around
the image and the caption selected will appear.
 Press the OK button to print the report. Selection | Previous image
Selects the previous image in the loop. If the current image is the first
image in the investigation, the computer will give a beep.

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Print
This option prints the current video image on the default printer. The
currently displayed image is printed together with an information
header.

Figure 6.9 Process cine-loop Figure 6.10 Print video image

When images are printed, they often appear darker than displayed on
Selection | Next Image the screen. To compensate for this symptom you can check the Raise
Selects the next image in the loop. If the current image is the last brightness for print option. When activated, the software will raise the
image in the investigation, the computer will give a beep. brightness of the images before they are printed. In this way the
images will be printed in the same brightness as displayed on the
Selection | Select from all screen.
All images will be displayed (minified) in a window. You can pick one of
the images, by clicking on it with the mouse.

Cine-loop | Play cine-loop

A motion picture made from all images present in the currently selected
cine-loop is played.

Cine-loop | Stop cine-loop

The motion picture of the cine-loop will stop playing.

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7 Video image processing When the software is activated, a window appears displaying the
current video image. All operations will be performed on the currently
visible image.
7.1 Introduction
The last paragraphs of chapters 5 and 6 discuss some options of the
processing software. When the Video image processing option is
installed, the processing software contains many more advanced
options, like:
 Contrast and brightness enhancements.
 Image filtering, like edge detection.
 Image manipulation, like rotate and mirror images.
 Color manipulation, like image negative.
 Image export to several DTP formats.
 Measurements of distances and angles in images.
The video image processing software is completely integrated with the
analysis software. This chapter discusses all the options of the video
image processing software.

To start this part of the software:

 Click the Display video image button or , òr

 Select Video | Video processing, or
 Click with the right mouse button on the top of one of the picture
snap markers or cine-loop markers (if available), and select Process
image or Process cineloop from the pop-up menu.

Figure 7.2 Process video window

The status bar shows the sequence number and size of the image, and
the type of image.

Figure 7.1 Process image

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7.2 Image instructions 7.3 Image selection

The Image menu contains some instructions for the displayed image. 7.3.1 Select image from investigation
When more than one image is present in the investigation, the image
Image | Undo selection options can be used to select one of the other images.
Whenever you perform an image processing operation and you are not The images are numbered in chronological order in the investigation.
satisfied with the results, the Undo function will restore the image to its The number of the currently selected image is shown in the status bar.
state before the last image operation.

Selection | Next Image

Image | Save Selects the next image in the investigation. If the current image is the
The Save function saves the processed image. For each original video last image in the investigation, the computer will give a beep.
image, up to three processed images can be saved. The processed
images can be selected with Selection | Select processed.
The Save option will only be enabled when the processed imaged has Selection | Previous image
not been saved yet. Selects the previous image in the investigation. If the current image is
the first image in the investigation, the computer will give a beep.
Image | Delete
This function deletes the original image from the investigation. Selection | Select from all
All images will be displayed (minimized) in a window. You can pick one
Image | Copy of the images, by clicking on it with the mouse.
This function copies the selected area of the image to the Windows
clipboard. Now the image can be imported in another program with the
Windows Paste function.

Image | Zoom in
Zooms in on the image.

Image | Zoom out

Zooms out on the image.

Figure 7.3 Select video image

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7.3.2 Select processed / original image To delete one of the processed images:
 Select the image to be deleted by clicking on it with the mouse.
When the video processing option is installed in your system, you can  Click on the Del key on the keyboard to mark the processed image
process/change images. For each original video image, up to three as deleted. A red cross will appear through the image.
processed images can be stored. For the selection of one of these  To undo the deletion, press the Del key again.
images the following options can be used.
When the window is closed, the software will prompt you to confirm the
Selection | Select processed actual deletion. When you press the Yes button, the images are
A window with the original image and its corresponding processed actually removed.
images will be displayed. You can select one of the displayed images
for display and further processing. NOTE It is not possible to delete the original (top-left) image
from the Select processed image window.

Selection | Original image

The original image will be displayed again. It will only be enabled when
the original image is not already displayed.
When you process an image, the processed image will be displayed.

7.3.3 Select image to be displayed during review

Default the original images which were digitized during the
investigation are shown during analysis when the cursor is moved.
However, if you processed an image and want to see this image
instead of the original image during analysis, do the following:

 click the Save processed image button to save the processed

image (or press F2 or select Image | Save from the menu).
 From the menu select Selection | Select review. The currently
Figure 7.4 Selection of processed images displayed image will be displayed during analysis instead of the
original image. When selected, a checkmark will appear in front of
this option.
To select an image for further processing, double-click on the desired
image. When the Print button is clicked, a hard copy of the original
image and the related processed image is made.

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7.3.4 Image area selection 7.4 Video image printing

The video processing software allows image operations to be
performed on any rectangular area within the image. Print
This option prints the current video image on the default printer.
The image area can be set as follows: The currently displayed image is printed together with an
 Move the mouse cursor to one of the corners of the desired image information header.
area in the image.
 Press the left mouse button and keep it depressed.
 Drag the mouse until the desired image area is enclosed in the
drawn rectangle.
 Release the mouse button.
The rectangle represents the image area. All following image
operations will be performed on this area only. The area outside this
rectangle will not be affected.

Selection | Reset selection

This option will set the image area to the whole image. All following
image operations will be performed on the complete image.
Figure 7.5 Print video image

When images are printed, they often appear darker than displayed on
the screen. To compensate for this symptom you can check the Raise
brightness for print option. When activated, the software will raise the
brightness of the images before they are printed. In this way the
images will be printed in the same brightness as displayed on the
screen.

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7.5 Image processing options Options | Special FX | Dilate

The dilate function darkens an image area by enlarging the dark
regions of the image.
7.5.1 Introduction
Options | Special FX | Erode
Image processing can be used to obtain a better image or to extract
The erode function brightens an image area by enlarging the bright
specific information from an image. It is recommended to experiment
regions of the image.
with the various image processing options to get a clear understanding
of the different possibilities.
Options | Special FX | Gently sharpen
The gently sharpen function increases the perceived sharpness of an
When a video image is processed, the result of the image operation
image by increasing the difference in brightness levels of neighbour
will be displayed in the video window. However this window is not yet
pixels. This function makes the details of the image more visible, but
saved. When you close the video window the processed image will be
may introduce noise. It sharpens the image less then the Sharpen
discarded. To save the processed image:
function.
 Click the Save processed image button, or
 Select Image | Save from the menu.
Options | Special FX | Median
The median filter function removes random noise from an image area
by replacing a central pixel value with the median of its local area. The
Whenever you performed an image processing operation and you are
local area is defined as 5 x 5 pixels.
not satisfied with the results, you can restore the image to its state
before the last image operation:
Options | Special FX | Negative
 Click the Undo button, or
The negative function modifies the pixels in the image to create an
 Select Image | Undo. effect similar to a photographic negative.

The following paragraphs will discuss the various image processing Options | Special FX | Outline
options available. The outline function creates an outline within the image. This function
is an edge detection filter. The brightness of the resulting image is
proportional to the magnitude of the brightness difference between
adjacent pixels.
7.5.2 Special effects
Options | Special FX | Pixellize
The video processing software has several capabilities to The pixellize function assigns brightness levels to local regions within
enhance/filter the images. By means of these options you can perform an image to the average value. The resulting image will look like a
a few image operations like edge detection and contrast mosaic.
enhancements. The following section will describe the several options
that are available. Options | Special FX | Posterize
The posterize function modifies the image so that the image will only
Options | Special FX | Blur contain a few gray shades.
The blur function softens the appearance of the image. It produces a
smoothed image with softened edges.

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Options | Special FX | Remove noise 7.5.4 Image combinations

The remove noise function removes random noise from the image by
replacing each pixel with the median of the neighbour pixels. The video processing software has several capabilities to combine two
images. The first step you should always perform, is to select one of
Options | Special FX | Sharpen the images to combine with other images:
The sharpen function increases the perceived sharpness of an image
by increasing the differences in brightness levels of neighbour pixels.  Select Options | Combine | Select image from the menu.
This function makes the details of the image more visible, but also
introduces noise. The combine functions will always operate on the selected image and
the currently displayed image. Following is an overview of the available
Options | Special FX | Trace options.
The trace function creates an outline within the image. The resulting
image will be black and white. Only the contours of the image will be Options | Combine | Add image
visible. The add image function adds the brightness of each pixel in the
selected image to the brightness level of the corresponding pixel in the
current image.
7.5.3 Brighten and Contrast
Options | Combine | Subtract image
Whenever an image is too dark (or too light) or lacks sufficient contrast The subtract image function subtracts the brightness level of each pixel
you can enhance the brightness and contrast of the image. The in the selected image from the brightness level of the corresponding
software provides two options to achieve a better brightness and pixels in the current image. This function can be used to emphasize
contrast. differences between the images.

Options | Brighten | Equalize Options | Combine | And image

The equalize function reassigns the levels of the image so that the The AND image function performs a logical AND-function on the value
integral of the resulting histogram increases linearly with the brightness of each pixel in the selected image with the value of the corresponding
level. Equalization is most effective when applied to a dark image. pixels in the current image.

Options | Brighten | Histo-brighten Options | Combine | Or image

The histo-brighten function brightens an image by reassigning The OR image function performs a logical OR-function on the value of
brightness levels so that the integral of the resulting histogram each pixel in the selected image with the value of the corresponding
increases quadratically with the brightness level. pixels in the current image.
Histogram brightening generally reduces the number of brightness
levels in the image. Contrast is improved, but details may be lost. Options | Combine | Xor image
Histogram brightening is sometimes very effective in bringing out the The XOR image function performs a logical exclusive OR-function on
details of an image when the subject of interest is hidden in shadows. the value of each pixel in the selected image with the value of the
corresponding pixels in the current image.

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Options | Combine | Cover image Options | Export | BMP

The cover image function places a bright section of the selected image The export BMP function exports the image to a BMP compatible file.
onto the current image. The selected image can be thought of as This file format can be read by many Windows 95 programs.
providing backdrop for the selected image. It is the darker regions of
the current image that the selected image shows through. Options | Export | EPS
The export EPS function exports the image to an Encapsulated
Options | Combine | Average image Postscript file.
The average image function averages the brightness level of each
pixel in the current image with the brightness level of the corresponding Options | Export | JPEG
pixels in the selected image. The export JPEG function exports the image to a JPEG compatible file.
The JPEG standard saves the image using a lossy data compression
algorithm, the resulting files use little disk-space.
7.5.5 Video image transformations
Options | Export | GIF
Several image transformations can be performed on the current image. The export GIF function exports the image to an uncompressed GIF
compatible file. This file format can be read by many Windows 95 or
Options | Transform | Flip Windows NT programs.
The flip function flips the image from top to bottom.
Options | Export | PCX
Options | Transform | Mirror The export PCX function exports the image to a PCX compatible file.
The mirror function reverses the image left to right to create a mirror The PCX file standard was commonly used under Windows 3.1. and is
image. still supported by many programs.

Options | Transform | Rotate 90 Options | Export | PNG

The rotate function rotates the images 90 degrees clockwise. The export PNG function exports the image with maximum
compression as an interlaced PNG file. This file format can be read by
many Windows 95 or Windows NT programs.
7.5.6 Video image export
Options | Export | TGA
The current image can be exported to several DTP (Desktop The export TGA function exports the image to a TGA (Targa)
publishing) formats. It can be used to export the images to a certain file compatible file.
format which can be read by other programs. When one of the image
export functions is activated, a save dialog-box will be displayed. You Options | Export | TIFF
can enter or select the destination file, where the image should be The export TIFF function exports the image to a TIFF compatible file.
exported to. The following export options are available. The TIFF file format is widely used in graphical industries. A lot of
computer platforms support TIFF files.

Options | Export | AVI

Export cineloops to a AVI compatible file.

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7.6 Video measurements 7.6.2 Protocol measurements

7.6.1 Introduction The protocol measurement option offers you the possibility to define a
set of measurements which should be repeated for multiple tests (or
The measurement sub-menu provides different options to perform loops). You have to define only once what you want to measure and
measurements on the video images. The software allows you to place the software will store that information in a protocol. The next time the
markers and measure distances and angles. The following paragraphs same measurements have to be performed, you can just select that
describe all possibilities in detail. protocol and the software will prompt you for all measurements.

To edit a protocol, activate Measurement | Edit protocol and select one

of the protocols from the sub-menu. The following window will appear.

Figure 7.7 Edit video protocol window

In this dialog window you can edit the selected video measurement
protocol. Each protocol consists of a protocol name and a number of
measurement definitions.

Protocol name
Enter a name for the protocol in this field. It is recommended to use
Figure 7.6 Video measurements meaningful names, indicating what measurements are defined in the
protocol. This name will be used in the protocol sub-menus but also will
appear on top of the measurement results reports.

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Video protocol measurements Delete

In the video protocol measurements section you can create, edit and To delete a particular measurement from the protocol, you need to
delete the measurements of the protocol. In the list on screen, the select that measurement and click on Delete. The software will prompt
present measurements are displayed. The left column indicates the you for confirmation. After confirming the measurement will be
type of measurement, the right column indicates the names of the removed from the protocol.
measurement points. Up to three different measurement types can be
defined. According to the type, 1, 2 or 3 measurement point names NOTE The software uses the names of the measurement
should be entered. point also as a reference to the coordinates of that
measurement point. This means that when
New measurements are performed, you cannot change a
To add a measurement to the protocol, click on the New button. When name in the protocol without losing the
this option is activated, another dialog window appears. In that dialog measurements related to that point. So do not
window you can select the type of measurement, and enter the names change the names after you have performed
for the measurement points. measurements.

Click OK to accept the changes in the protocol, or click Cancel when

the changes should not be saved.

Execute protocol
To execute a protocol activate Measurement | Protocol measurements
from the menu. When this option is activated the program will be in the
protocol measurement mode.

To execute all pre-defined measurements from the protocol, click

or activate Measure | Execute all from the menu. The software will then
Figure 7.8 Enter / Edit protocol ask you to perform all measurements, which are defined in the
protocol. In the status bar at the bottom of the screen you will see the
Edit measurement which should be executed. To place a measurement
To edit a particular measurement, you should first select the point, just click with the mouse on the appropriate spot in the video
measurement to edit in the list. Once the desired measurement is image. After performing a measurement, the software will prompt you
selected, you should click on the Edit button. The same dialog window for the next one, until all measurements are performed.
as during entering a new measurement will appear, however the entry
fields will be set according to the measurement definition. You can If you want to measure the measurements of the protocol in a particular
change the measurement types and/or the measurement point names. sequence, you can also select the appropriate individual measurement
from the Measure menu. Measurements which already have been
performed, will have a check mark in front of them displayed in the
Measure menu.

When all measurements are performed, click the button and the
Measure | Execute all menu item will be disabled.

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7.6.3 Free measurements

The and buttons can still be used to select the previous and
next images. Also the other options in the Selection menu can still be The free measurement option allows you to perform any arbitrary
used for image selection. Besides the selection options most image measurements. No measurements are predefined and every
processing options can still be activated from the menu. measurement should be activated by selecting the appropriate
To display all results for the video protocol, click on or activate measurement type from the menu. The free measurement mode can
Measure | Display results from the menu. When activated all distances be activated by selecting Measurement | Free measurements from the
and angles calculated for each image will be displayed. menu.

Click or activate End measurement to end the video When activated the free video measurement mode will be active.
measurements and leave the measurement mode. You can measure any distance or angle you want. Further you can
place reference markers anywhere in the video image.

On the speed bar you will see some buttons. Each button represents a
measurement type. When a measurement button is clicked it will stay
down until it is clicked again or one of the other measurement buttons
is clicked. When a measurement button is down, you can perform the
corresponding measurement in the video image. When none of the
buttons is down you can move measurement points.

The Measure | Auto names setting determines how names will be

assigned to each measurement point you place. When it is inactive you
will be prompted to enter a name for each measurement point you
place in the investigation. If Measure | Auto Names is active, the
software will automatically generate unique names for each
measurement point you place.

Measure | Marker
When the marker mode is active, everywhere you click in the image a
marker is placed. Depending on the naming mode, either the software
generates a name or you have to enter a name for each marker you
place. Markers can be used to mark interesting points in the image.

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7.6.4 General options during measurement

Measure | Distance
When the distance mode is active, you can measure distances in the During protocol measurements or free measurements you can delete
image. To measure a distance, mark both the begin and end point by present measurements and move measurement points. This paragraph
clicking with the mouse in the image. When the distance is marked, it describes how to accomplish this.
depends on the Auto names mode whether or not you should enter
names for the measurement points. The software will immediately Move/change measurement point
display the distance and a line indicating the distance in the video Click with the left mouse button on a marker, distance line or angle.
image. When you performed the calibration the distances will be You can drag and drop the item to another position. To change the
displayed in mm otherwise the distances will be in pixels. distance or angle, click with the cursor in a circle (at the end of a line)
and move the cursor to another position.
Measure | Angle
When the angle mode is active, you can measure angles in the image. Delete present measurements
To measure an angle mark, the begin, corner and end point of the Click with the left mouse button on a marker, distance line or angle to
angle by clicking with the mouse in the image. When the angle is To delete a certain measurement, click with the right mouse button on
marked, it depends on the Auto names mode whether or not you the selected item. A pop-up menu will appear in which you can select
should enter names for the measurement points. The software will Delete.
immediately display the angle and two lines indicating the angle in the
video image.

Click on the Measurement results button or activate Measure | Display

results to show the results of the free measurements.

The and buttons can still be used to select the previous and
next images. Also the other options in the Selection menu can still be
used for image selection. Besides the selection options most image
processing options can still be activated from the menu.

Click or activate End measurement to end the video

measurements and leave the free measurement mode.

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7.6.5 Measurement results 7.6.6 Measurement calibration

The results of measurements performed can be displayed in a window When distance measurements are performed, the distance is by
and printed in a report. default calculated in pixels. Often this will not be satisfactory since you
are interested in absolute and not in relative distances.
The result window can be displayed by clicking on or activating
Measure | Display results. when you are in the measurement mode. In order to obtain distances in mm instead of pixels, you need to
calibrate. The calibration procedure is very easy to perform when there
is an object of known length in the video image. This known object can
for instance be a lead-ruler or catheter with known distances between
the ports.

The calibration procedure is started by activating the Measurement |

Calibrate option. When activated, click on the begin and end point of
the object of known distance.

Figure 7.9 Video measurement results Figure 7.10 Enter distance of the object

All video measurement results will be displayed in this window. The You will then be prompted to enter the distance of the object. When
video image numbers will be displayed bold, followed by all results entered, the software will convert all distances in pixels to distances in
related to that image. mm.

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7.7 Video settings Settings | Operate on all

The operate on all setting will control whether all images in the current
The video processing software offers some settings to control the cine-loop or just the current image will be affected when an image
behaviour of the processing operation and the appearance of the operation is performed. This setting is only for the Cine-loops option
images. (see following paragraph).

Settings | Display data values

When this setting is active the values of the measured channels at the 7.8 Cine-loop
moment the image was digitized will be displayed in a separate
window. The values are displayed for all channels currently visible on When the cine-loop option is installed in the system, it is possible to
the screen. play the cine-loop like a motion picture.

Settings | Display histogram

The histogram is a graph which displays the brightness level as a Cine-loop | Play cine-loop
function of the frequency of that brightness level. The vertical axis A motion picture made from all images present in the currently selected
shows the frequency and the horizontal axis shows the brightness cine-loop is played.
level. When Settings | Histogram is activated, a histogram for the
current image, will always be displayed in a separate window. The
histogram shows the gray level distribution of the current image. Cine-loop | Stop cine-loop
The motion picture of the cine-loop will stop playing.

Figure 7.11 Histogram displayed in a separate window

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average image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

Index cover image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
or image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
Select image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
A subtract image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
Activate cine-loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8 Xor image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
Angle measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21 Computer
Arm for trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6 requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13
Arm key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6 software possibilities video boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
AVI export cineloops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14 video boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
B Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Brighten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11 Contrast liquid weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Equalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11 Cronosplus board
Histo-brighten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11 installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7 introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
software possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
C video options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Calibration measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
Capture window size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 D
Cine-loop Digitize mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8 Digitize resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
automatic start digitization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6 Display method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
digitization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6 Distance measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
digitize rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 DTP formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 Duration cineloop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
images in report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 E
manual start digitization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6 Execute protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18
marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Export
number of cine-lopps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 AVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
number of images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 BMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 EPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11, 7-26 GIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
play cine-loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11 JPEG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
process image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10 PCX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
save video images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 PNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 TGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11 TIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Combine F
add image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12 Flow trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
and image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12 Free measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

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I Meteor II board
Image installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
brighten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11 introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12 software possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11 video options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3 N
digitization during investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 NTSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1, 6-3
digitize rate cine-loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Number of images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4, 5-8 O
print selected image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8 Online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
processing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9 Overlay mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
reset selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
save processed image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3, 7-9 P
select area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7 PAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1, 6-3
select image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4 Picture snap marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
select original image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5 Play cine-loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
select processed image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5 Pressure trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9 Print
transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13 brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3 cine-loop images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3 image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8, 6-12
Image digitizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 selected image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 Process image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6, 6-10, 7-1
check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12 Protocol measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
Cronosplus board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Meteor II board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5 Pulsar board
Pulsar board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8 installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Trouble shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14 introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
Investigation protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 software possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
video options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
M
Manuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 R
Measure | Angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21 Raise brightness for print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8, 7-8
Measure | Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21 RC-1000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Measure | Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20 RC-1100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Measurement calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24 RC-2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Measurement protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Measurement results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23 Report
Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15 print cine-loop images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Memory allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 print image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Reset selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

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Results measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23 Trigger value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Rotate video image after investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
V
S Video digitization mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Video digitize resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Save video images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3, 6-7 Video image during analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Select review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6 Video Image Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4, 7-1
Settings Video image size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
cine-loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Video image transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
general video settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 Video images in printed report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Operate on all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26 Video input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Setup video capture window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Video measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Shift key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1, 3-3, 3-5 Video memory allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Size video window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Video overlay mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Software possibilities video boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11 Video processing settings
Special effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9 display data values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
Special FX display histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9 Video window display method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
dilate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 Video window positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8, 4-10
erode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 Videomix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4, 5-2
gently sharpen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 Voided volume trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
median . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
negative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 W
outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 Waiting for loop arm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
pixellize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 Weight contrast liquid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
posterize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 Window positioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
remove noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
sharpen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Specific weight contrast liquid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Stop cine-loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11, 7-26
Store key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13

T
Time after trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Transform
flip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
rotate 90 degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
Trigger channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Trigger criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Trigger type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

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