Pular para o conteúdo principal
GE Healthcare · MRSignaHiSpeed

Dark Vertical Bands in Images Due to X axis PPBM

Symptom

MRIQ: Dark Vertical Bands or Venetian Blind Artifact in Images See attached file. The system is a 1.5T HiSpeed, with SGD Gradients, running 9.1 M4 software. These artifacts were pretty repeatable. The problem appeared to only occur on the Knee scans and some scans done with the TORSO coil. The Customer would see an artifact just about every other patient scan. There were intermittent errors in the log stating X axis overload and PPBM errors. See attached file. The system is a 1.5T HiSpeed, with SGD Gradients, running 9.1 M4 software. These artifacts were pretty repeatable. The problem appeared to only occur on the Knee scans and some scans done with the TORSO coil. The Customer would see an artifact just about every other patient scan. There were intermittent errors in the log stating X axis overload and PPBM errors.

Applies to

Models
Signa, HiSpeed
Product
Signa LX Signa LX Product can be used with 8.x and 9.x systems.
Software
9.1 For Signa LX product only
Component
2175599-2 SGD Hi Slew GPM PPBM module
Area
MR

Full cause & step-by-step resolution

The complete cause analysis, the step-by-step remedy and the attached service documents for this GE Healthcare MR issue are available to FSELIB subscribers — re-authored, web-first, searchable.

7-day free trial · no credit card required

Related GE Healthcare MR issues