Glossary
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Clip A clip is a short sequences of multiple frames like a
movie.
CO Cardiac output.
Completed exam Once an exam is completed, you won’t be able to
add images to the exam. You can add/edit/delete
any annotations that have been saved as overlays
on images/clips until the exam is archived. Once
archived, you cannot edit anything. If the clinician
does not complete an exam, KOSMOS will
automatically complete the exam when KOSMOS
is turned off.
DA Digital auscultation.
DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
DICOM is the most universal and fundamental
standard in digital medical imaging. It’s an all-
encompassing data transfer, storage, and display
protocol built and designed to cover all functional
aspects of contemporary medicine. PACS
functionality is DICOM driven.
ECG Electrocardiogram. Electrocardiography is the
process of recording the electrical activity of the
heart over a period of time using electrodes
placed over the skin. These electrodes detect the
tiny electrical changes on the skin that arise from
the heart muscle's electro physiologic pattern of
depolarizing and re-polarizing during each
heartbeat.
Exam An exam contains all the objects, images, clips,
and reports that are saved during a clinical
examination of a patient with KOSMOS, which
usually maps to a patient’s visit.
FOV Field of view is the two-dimension space of B-
mode image acquisition.
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