Re: GETTING IMAGES FROM ATL UM9 3000
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sun Oct 20 09:41:43 2002
you'd think the manufacturers would all get with the program and replace
the mo drives with cd burners what we all actually use lol
just a thought in case the manufacturers are lurking
art
At Sat, 19 Oct 2002, jworrall@alaska.net wrote:
>
>I do not know about the UM9 3000 but here is the way it works on the
>HDI 5000: the disk drive is a magneto optical drive, which takes a
>special magnetooptical disc, not a regular floppy or Zip disc. When I
>see an image that I want to sent to the MO disc, I press the PRINT
>button. Then I take the disc out of the ultrasound machine, sneaker-
>net the disc to my computer in the next room, and put the MO disk in
>the MO drive on my computer. (It is not likely you have an MO drive on
>your computer, so you would have to get one). Then, using special
>software I purchased from Graham Thrisk (I can get you the URL if you
>want it) I can save the image to my computer.
>
>If the image you want is on the hard drive (again, I do not know how
>the UM9 3000 works, but the HDI 5000 has a hard drive) I think I can
>copy the image from the hard drive to the MO disk.
>
>The advantage of this system is that the image is digital all the way,
>so it makes for a very clean and sharp image.
>
>If this does not help, let me know more details, and maybe I can help.
>
>Allen Worrall
>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: thewavenewsletter@yahoo.com (Diana Ross)
>Date: Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:37 pm
>Subject: GETTING IMAGES FROM ATL UM9 3000
>
>> Hi, everyone
>>
>> I have the ATL UM9 3000 and I want to get the images which are
>> stored there transferred onto my computer. The
>> unit has some kind of access to these images via some sort of disk
>> on the front of the unit. I believe this is
>> some kind of optical disk, but I don't know what kind or if I can
>> really use this.
>>
>> I have several images I want to transfer.
>>
>> We don't have a PACS system, and I don't even have a number to
>> contact the company since we don't use them for
>> repair.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what I can do, or who I can contact for
>> info?
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Diana Ross, RT, RDMS
>>
>> Editor, The WAVE~~~Online Newsletter for Sonographers of All
>> Disciplines
>>
>> http://thewave.www.50megs.com
>>
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
