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1. be blank on the label In the example below the setting custom1 1 0010 1010 Age will produce a label with the following text Age 57y Example profile fields default txt 3FieldStudies patientName 3 patientID studyDate_Modality studyDescription referringPhysician patientDOB custom1 1 0010 1010 Age custom2 2 0008 0023 Content Date custom3 4FieldStudies patientName 2 patientID studyDate_Modality studyDescription 4 Description referringPhysician patientDOB custom1 1 0010 1010 Age custom2 3 0008 0023 Content Date Q O CODONICS Product Improvements Optical drive tray retry If either of the optical drive trays begin to experience difficulties in opening and closing Virtua will issue a message on the dashboard warning of this condition and to contact Codonics Technical Support If the condition deteriorates to the point where multiple attempts to open or close the tray are not successful Virtua will stop processing jobs Transfer syntax selection for job profiles Medical devices can transfer images using any of the three basic DICOM transfer syntaxes Typically a device can negotiate for any of these and the Virtua will allow the transfer Sometimes it is desirable to disallow one or more of these basic transfer syntaxes when negotiating with a particular device Job Profiles can be configured to not accept any of the basic three2. 40 243 1198 Email support codonics com Website www codonics com R CODONICS We bring the future into focus 17991 Englewood Drive Middleburg Heights OH 44130 USA 440 243 1198 440 243 1334 Fax Email info codonics com www codonics com Codonics Limited KK New Shibaura Bldg F1 1 3 11 Shibaura Minato ku Tokyo 105 0023 JAPAN Phone 81 3 5730 2297 Fax 81 3 5730 2295
3. Codonics Virtua Operating Software 3 1 2 Release Notes Summary Version 3 1 2 software provides product improvements for the Codonics Virtua Medical Disc Publisher CAUTION Version 3 1 2 software is intended for use on all Virtua systems except for the Virtua 1 model Version 3 1 2 software will not install on the Virtua 1 model controller serial numbers beginning with 70C This document details the changes from Version 3 1 0 software Virtua User s Manuals provide further information on the use of Virtua systems If you are upgrading from an older software version previous Virtua Release Notes can be downloaded from the Codonics web site New Features Virtua Robotic Arm Calibration Virtua now has an improved Robotic Arm Utility This feature is used to help assure that the Virtua Medical Disc Publisher s robotic arm is properly calibrated for regular transport of discs It is strongly recommended that this process be performed upon initial Virtua system installation or after major system repair or transport This Utility will not run or appear on Virtua ECO units For more information see the Robotic Arm Utilit Technical Brief Codonics Part No 901 222 001 Print any DICOM tag on disc label This feature allows user to configure the Virtua to print the value of any DICOM tag on the disc label The user can specify a text prefix to be used on the label The file fields default txt in the labels directory on
4. ad can be used on Windows 2000 XP Vista and Windows ME Users of Windows NT or Windows 98 can use Windows Explorer to navigate to and launch viewers or open reports Get it all with just one call 1 800 444 1198 All registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of their respective owners Specifications subject to change without notice Patent 7 375 737 and others pending Copyright 2009 Codonics Inc Printed in the U S A Part No 901 225 001 01 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 Receiving a study while a previously sent version is recording can cause the recording job to fail or produce an unusable disc Changes to the HIPAA log during software changes Since the extension to the HIPAA log file log job is changing from txt to csv in this software version entries made after an upgrade will only occur in the csv file Therefore refer to the csv file for those entries if a subsequent downgrade occurs Following entries will then go back to the txt file Unable to anonymize large DICOM image files gt 256 MB The system can become unresponsive and will then need to be reb
5. crypt default txt file on the SmartDrive Virtua can now exclude the Study Information Section in the readme txt file included on the unencrypted portion of an encrypted disc This Section normally includes Patient Name Patient ID Study Date Modality etc Parameter dolncludePlaintextStudyinfo Settings true or false Default true Description If false Virtua will exclude the Study Information Section from the readme txt file Windows XPE security patch updates thru April 2009 Japanese voice messages for Virtua ECO McKesson D2D software patch included Disclaimers modified for LaunchPad amp Clarity Viewer version 6 1 8 Defects Repaired This section details issues that exist with 3 1 0 software and are corrected in 3 1 2 software Clarity Viewer in Japanese Enables the Save As button for image screenshots Patient Matching configurations in the Job Profile will be applied to the first job Virtua records after booting up When recording multiple studies for the same Patient the Clarity Viewer can now open every study on these discs Improved handling of patient name capitalization in DICOMDIR When Virtua receives DICOM files for separate studies with patient names having different capitalization than in other files SMITH vs smith vs Smith the Clarity viewer can now view all of the images on the disc Improved support for many User Profiles Improved anonymization Anonymized the Study ID
6. on the disc label Anonymized Patient DOB to a valid value Clarity Viewer can now view all anonymized images for multiple patients and studies on the same disc Known Common Issues This section details common issues with 3 1 2 software that are likely to be experienced by most users Process may stop during software installation Leaving the network cable connected may cause installation to stop during Phase 4 Disconnect cable prior to installation amp f O CODONICS 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 and Firefox 3 There are minor cosmetic problems when remotely connecting with both browsers Internet Explorer 6 is recommended for remote connections to Virtua Discs required counts are inaccurate for multi disc backup jobs When multi disc backup jobs all studies included in the job will not fit on one disc are queued the Discs Required count in the Status Details tab and the X of Y discs recorded count on the Discs tab might contain inaccurate counts Typically the count will not increment until the entire set is completed Known Uncommon Issues This section details uncommon or obscure issues with 3 1 2 software that are unlikely to be experienced by most users IP address conflic
7. ooted 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 Limited Viewer support for international characters Refer to the Clarity Viewer Manual Codonics Part No CLARITY MNLU for details User interface issue with Hong Kong locale Problems with date formatting may distort the user interface in the Chinese Hong Kong zh_HK locale For Chinese language it is recommended that one of the other Chinese locales be used 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 4
8. t 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 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 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 The LaunchPad does not work on Windows NT or Windows 98 OS When discs created on Virtua are installed on PCs the LaunchPad is initiated The LaunchP
9. the SmartDrive controls what information will be printed for each field in a study reference Virtua User s Manuals To include the value of any DICOM tag as a field on the label add or modify the custom1 custom2 custom3 and or custom4 parameters in the 3FieldStudies and 4FieldStudies sections To include identifier text as a prefix for a custom field enter a space after the DICOM tag number See the 4FieldStudies example below This same technique can be used to include identifier text as a prefix for a standard field NOTE Since there is limited space on the label do not use prefixes that are too long Configuring this feature may slightly reduce system throughput Release Notes Parameter custom1 custom2 custom3 custom4 Settings Index Tag_Number Prefix Default Blank Description Controls position of custom DICOM tag in the study block on the disc label Index controls the position within the study block Tag_Number indicates the DICOM tag to include a value from such as 0010 1010 which is Patient s Age Prefix is an optional part of the parameter which indicates a prefix to use for this field NOTE There must not be a space in between the parts of the DICOM tag number 0010 1010 will work but 0010 1010 will not work NOTE If a blank value a value that cannot be found in the DICOM file or cannot be converted to a string of text or a value is within a DICOM sequence tag and is used the value will
10. transfer syntaxes To control this behavior edit the Job Profile parameter for the desired syntaxes as shown below Job Profiles are in the profiles job folder on the SmartDrive Parameter acceptExplicitLittleEndian Settings true or false Default true accept Description If this setting is false Virtua will not accept the transfer syntax Explicit Little Endian during association negotiation Parameter acceptlmplicitLittleEndian Settings true or false Default true accept Description If this setting is false Virtua will not accept the transfer syntax Implicit Little Endian during association negotiation Parameter acceptExplicitBigEndian Settings true or false Default true accept Description If this setting is false Virtua will not accept the transfer syntax Explicit Big Endian during association negotiation NOTE Each Job Profile that is intended to control these transfer syntaxes must be modified Additional viewers These viewers have also been released on the Virtua Accessories and Manuals Disc Version 3 1 2 MIMViewer version 1 1 1 eFilm Lite version 3 1 Keosys VISIO updated version 1 1 0 Additional viewers only on the Virtua Accessories and Manuals Disc Version 3 1 2 Three Palm MammoViewer version 1 1 1 Invia Corridor4DM version 5 2 o Configurable readme txt on encrypted discs By configuring the following parameter in the profiles encryption en
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