GE Healthcare · MRExcite225405122245894062796

TG reached high limit on Head Coil due to defective cables/quick disconnect box.

Symptom

Auto Prescan Fails with TG Reached the High Limit See error in Long Description 2224589 File: PMH.m 1.29 Method: ps_send_ta Line: 50 TG reached the high limit. Check patient positioning and verify the patient is not touching the transmit coil. Try Auto Prescan again or use Manual Prescan.

Error message

2254051 Power Monitor 1 Fault. RF Transmit power has reached safety limit allowed for scan parameters and patient weight. See Long Description Fri Aug 20 08:33:11 2004 Error: 2254051 Host: lx-mr Process: NSP File: SCP:PmMdsHWO Line: 1019 Power Monitor 1 Fault. RF Transmit power has reached safety limit allowed for scan parameters and patient weight. Check patient weight entered. amplitude: 35 pulse width: 33 duty cycle: 09 Fault in head amplitude. This could also occur when power cycling SSM.

2224589 TG reached the high limit. See Long Description Suite: MR01 Host: OC0 Proc: MSG_HANDLR0 Error: 2224589 File: PMH.m 1.29 Method: ps_send_ta Line: 50 TG reached the high limit. Check patient positioning and verify the patient is not touching the transmit coil. Try Auto Prescan again or use Manual Prescan. Note: On later systems, this same error code has been slightly reworded to read as follows: Thu Jun 12 11:06:12 2008 Error: 2224589 Host: MENEMR Process: NSP File: TPS:aps_exec Line: 4062796 TG reached the high limit. TG has been set to 190. Check patient positioning and if desired try Auto Prescan again or use Manual Prescan.

Applies to

Models
Excite
Product
Excite Includes Excite 1 and Excite 2, 10.0, 11.0 and 11.1 Software.
Software
11.0 Only for 1.5T Excite product. 12.0 is Excite HD and 14.0 is Excite HDx. Note, 3T Excite goes with software G3, not 11.0 or 11.1.
Component
2384268 CLASSIC HEAD COIL CBL ASM W/COIL ID See Long Description and Attachment See Attachment for the engineering drawing of this part: 2384268ADW Rev. 2. This is not available online. To confirm this is the most appropriate drawing, go to ePDM.
Area
MR

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