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1. 130 GB Virtua 2 ECO or almost 200 GB XR can be stored to Virtua before DICOM associations are rejected Virtua can automatically reboot The user can configure a time of day at which the Virtua will automatically reboot itself The following parameters can be configured in the profiles system txt profile Parameter enableAutoReboot Settings true or false Default false Description If set to true causes the system to automatically reboot at the time of day specified in the autoRebotTime parameter Parameter autoRebootTime Settings 24 hour Time String Default 0400 Description Time of day at which to automatically reboot the system Default profile parameters improved Some default values have been updated to better account for real world scenarios Default Job Profile endOfStudyTimeout set to 120 instead of 10 or 30 Default Job Profile matchPatientUsing set to id_dob_sex instead of name_id_dob System Health Report added When the log files are captured the system now creates a Health Report that can be used to more quickly identify if the Virtua is experiencing a common issue experienced in the field Report possible system degradation if not using Codonics supported optical media Report media handling or recording errors that occur Q O CODONICS Report if usage level of each installed drive is OK lt 15k If not post Maintenance Needed OIL message Report if usage level o2. can copy studies to a USB flash drive or hard drive rather than to optical media USB drives may be preferable to optical media in some circumstances When a single preformatted USB drive is inserted the user can manually copy studies to the USB drive Virtua will automatically remove the USB drive when the copy completes NOTE The quality of USB media varies considerably For best results Codonics recommends using only USB media that is of known quality NOTE USB media can contain viruses Codonics recommends running a virus scan on USB media prior to use with this feature New feature keys Feature keys are required for the new Kiosk Mode and Copy to USB features Contact Codonics Technical Support or your Sales Representative to purchase feature keys to enable features not included with your system Product Improvements Viewer Updates The following viewer updates are included in Virtua 4 2 0 Syngo Plaza Viewer updated to VB10A Philips DICOM Viewer updated to v3 0 SP4 Control of Manual Record Disc Study Grouping improved In previous software all manually selected studies could be recorded on the same disc even if they were for more than one patient There are now System Profile and Job Profile parameters to control what types of studies may be recorded onto the same disc or disc set together The following settings are provided 1 allStudies all selected studies will be recorded on the same disc or spann
3. jobs Discs that were in process may be ejected without a printed label but will automatically be rerecorded and reprinted Process may stop during software installation Leaving the network cable connected may cause installation to stop during Phase 4 Disconnect cable prior to installation DICOM association limit may be exceeded DICOM clients that open many simultaneous associations might exceed Virtua s limit of 24 simultaneous connections This can cause the system to stop receiving DICOM jobs requiring the system to be rebooted Time remaining indicators for jobs are inaccurate if there is more than one Jobs page If there is more than one page of jobs queued eight or more jobs the time remaining indicator on the Discs tab will not be accurate on any pages other than the first page Each page starts the time estimation over again without accounting for the jobs on the previous page Special handling for Recorder cover when installing software on the Virtua ECO family systems When media Smart Detect mode is enabled leave the Recorder cover open when installing software Closing the cover with Smart Detect mode enabled will cause Virtua ECO to load another disc on top of the installation disc R O CODONICS The LaunchPad does not work on Windows NT Windows 98 or Windows 2000 OS with Internet Explorer version lower than 5 5 When discs created on Virtua are installed on PCs the LaunchPad is initiated The L
4. 01 238 006 03 Limited Viewer support for international characters Refer to the Clarity Viewer User s Manual Codonics Part Number CLARITY MNLJV for details No support for Indian locales The Tamil India ta_IN locale does not correctly support Tamil characters Site phone numbers with country codes may be truncated on labels Most labels support nine characters for phone numbers for the site details The Ink Saver label displays more characters Cannot set date and time from Virtua user interface in some Tier 2 locales The workaround for this problem is to run the system in the en_US locale which is the factory setting set the local time and date correctly and then change the system to the desired operating locale A list of Tier 2 locales and instructions for changing the locale are in the Virtua User s Manual Technical Support If problems occur during software installation contact Codonics Technical Support between the hours of 8 30AM and 5 30PM EST weekends and U S holidays excluded Phone 1 440 243 1198 Email support codonics com Website www codonics com CODONICS We bring the future into focus 17991 Englewood Drive Codonics Trading Co Ltd Codonics Limited KK Middleburg Heights OH 317 Xianxia Rd Building B Aquacity 9F 44130 USA Unit 1412 4 16 23 Shibaura 1 440 243 1198 Changning Dist Shanghai Minato ku Tokyo 1 440 243 1334 Fax P R China 200051 108 0023 JAPAN Email info co
5. Codonics Virtua Release Notes Operating Software Version 4 2 0 Release Notes Summary Version 4 2 0 software provides product improvements for the Codonics Virtua Medical Disc Publisher CAUTION Version 4 2 0 software is intended for use on all Virtua systems except for the Virtua 1 model Version 4 2 0 software will not install on the Virtua 1 model Controller serial numbers beginning with 70C CAUTION A full install is required when upgrading a standard Virtua system running 4 0 1 or previous software during which all patient studies will be removed Virtua XR E C will not require a full install to upgrade from previous software This document details the changes from Version 4 1 1 software The Virtua User s Manual Reference Guide Operating Software Release Notes and Technical Briefs provide further information on the use of Virtua systems If upgrading from an older software version previous Virtua Release Notes can be downloaded from the Codonics website New Features This section details new features in Version 4 2 0 software Query Retrieve Kiosk Mode This feature provides a flexible configurable solution for enabling non radiology clinicians to record studies to disc based on only key information about the study such as the accession number The Virtua administrator can restrict what fields certain Virtua users may query on when using the existing Virtua Query Retrieve interface Copy to USB Virtua
6. aunchPad can be used on Windows 2000 XP Vista and Windows ME with Internet Explorer v5 5 or higher Users of affected platforms can use Windows Explorer to navigate to and launch viewers or open reports Virtua ECO family system CD and DVD status lights unexpectedly alternate green and off for longer than two minutes In some circumstances Virtua ECO may show an unexpected shutdown taking longer than two minutes The workaround is to perform a hard shutdown press the System power button for about five seconds Power on the system to return to normal operations when desired IP address conflict is not reported If Virtua is configured to support a range of IP addresses and there is a conflict Virtua will not notify the user Successfully archived studies not marked as archived Aborting a Scheduled Archive while a label is being printed may not mark studies successfully archived as archived Studies will be re archived during the next Scheduled Archive session Known Issues for International Regions No Unicode support in Viewer The Clarity Medical Image Viewer does not correctly display Unicode characters It is uncommon for DICOM files to be encoded in Unicode Get it all with just one call 800 444 1198 All registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of their respective owners Specifications subject to change without notice Patents pending Copyright 2015 Codonics Inc Printed in the U S A Part No 9
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8. ed over a disc set previous software behavior 2 byPatient each disc or disc set will contain only studies for a single patient Virtua SW uses the Job Profile parameter matchPatientUsing to determine whether studies are for the same patient 3 byStudy each disc or disc set will contain only a single study The following parameter can be configured in the profiles system txt profile Parameter manualRecordStudyGrouping Settings allStudies byPatient byStudy Default allStudies R O CODONICS Description Controls how the system groups studies together on study discs By default all studies are included on the same disc or disc set If set to byPatient only studies for the same patient that fit on a disc are included on each disc or disc set If set to byStudy each study is included on its own disc or disc set NOTE This setting can be overridden by the Job Profile parameter manualRecordStudyGroupingOverride The following parameter can be configured in profiles job job XXX txt profiles Parameter manualRecordStudyGroupingOverride Settings none allStudies byPatient byStudy Default none Description Controls how the studies for the job are grouped together on study discs By default the behavior specified in the System Profile parameter manualRecordStudyGrouping is used If set to allStudies all studies are included on the same disc or disc set If set to byPatient only studies for the same pati
9. ent that fit on a disc are included on each disc or disc set If set to byStudy each study is included on its own disc or disc set Control of Character Set Overrides improved The new Locale Profile parameter overrideForSpecificCharacterSet replaces and extends the functionality of the previous overrideForIR100 parameter and can be configured to allow the Virtua to treat any Specific Character Set SCS as any other The following parameter can be configured in the profiles locale locale default txt profile Parameter overrideForSpecificCharacterSet multi valued Values lt IR no_SCS gt lt IR localeDefault gt Default blank Description A multi valued parameter that allows any DICOM SCS in a DICOM file to be mapped to a different SCS to allow text data to be interpreted correctly when handling non DICOM compliant data Examples overrideForSpecificCharacterSet IR 6 IR 100 DICOM files with Specific Character Set IR 6 ASCII are treated as IR 100 Latin 1 overrideForSpecificCharacterSet IR 100 IR 101 DICOM files with Specific Character Set IR 100 Latin1 are treated as IR 101 Latin 2 overrideForSpecificCharacterSet no_SCS IR 192 DICOM files with no Specific Character Set tag or a blank SCS tag are treated as IR 192 UTF 8 Maximum Database size increased In previous software only up to 80GB worth of studies could be stored to Virtua before DICOM associations were rejected Now up to
10. f 83C recorder print head is OK print head counter lt 10k If not post Replace Print Head OIL message Manual reset of this counter is required Report other information about system state usage Chinese Mandarin voice messages on Virtua E or Virtua C Pressing the Information button on a Virtua E or Virtua C in the Chinese Mainland locale will play an audible narrated message in the local language Configuration of patient matching criteria improved In cases where patient names do not exactly match across different modalities you can now configure the matching criteria to use the Last Name rather than the Full Name e g lastname_dob_sex rather than name_dob_sex Additionally the default criteria for this feature has been changed from name id dob to id dob sex Corrective Updates This section details issues that exist with Version 4 1 1 software and are corrected in Version 4 2 0 software Job Processing Interrupted The potential for the Job Queue to unnecessarily pause processing has been fixed Studies with HL7 reports with certain content will no longer cause job processing to fail Disc Label Defects repaired The Study Date Modality field is now wrapped across multiple lines as it was in 4 0 1 and previous software When the report icon is shown for a patient the patient name will now be shown properly in all cases Print to Hub for 83C recorders This parameter works properly now for 83C rec
11. orders Improved handling of apostrophes in Direct to Disc control files Fixed incorrect reporting of drive open close issues for 5600 optical drives Known Common Issues This section details common issues with Version 4 2 0 software that are likely to be experienced by most users Changing ink cartridges without using the Ink Cartridge Load button on the top of an 83C series Recorder may cause a label with poor quality on the first disc printed with the new cartridges To prevent this issue press the Ink Cartridge Load button before removing old ink cartridges or an old print head This issue only applies to newer engines that use separate ink cartridges for each color Studies can be lost or corrupted if a hard power down occurs Loss of power during some operations can result in lost or corrupt data An uninterruptible power supply and proper shutdown procedure are strongly recommended Compatibility problems with Internet Explorer 7 or greater and Firefox 3 There are minor cosmetic problems when remotely connecting with both browsers Internet Explorer 6 is recommended for remote connections to Virtua Known Uncommon Issues This section details uncommon or obscure issues with Version 4 2 0 software that are unlikely to be experienced by most users Virtua may stop processing jobs and an error dialog may appear on the touch screen Pressing OK on the error dialog will allow the system to continue processing
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