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Product Data Sheet – rev 4.2 
July 4th 2003  
Page 14 
 
 
 
LightSpeed
  
With Xtream 
CT Scanner System 
GE Medical Systems-America 
Milwaukee, USA  - Fax: 1 414 544 3384 
GE Medical Systems-Asia: 
Tokyo, Japan - Fax: 81 425 85 5490 
Hong Kong - Fax: 852 2559 3588 
GE Medical Systems-Europe 
Peripherals: 
• 
Heat Storage Capacity: 6.3 MHU  •  16 x 1.25 mm (uses all 24 rows) 
•  16 x 0.625 mm (uses center 16 rows )  
•  Heat Dissipation:   
Total of 254 GB system: 
•  Anode (max) 840 KHU/min 
70% geometric efficiency; 98% absorption 
efficiency. 
•  Casing (cont) 300 KHU/min 
•  Main system (host) disk drive: 
•  Tube Unit: 6.9 kW continuous for 10 
minutes 
•  High Performance Drive 
Data Acquisition System 
•  36 GB, 3.5 inch form factor 
•  Dual Focal Spots: 
•  15,000 RPM 
•  Small Focal Spot: 
12,288 available input channels. 
•  Ultra320 SCSI interface 
0.7  mm (W) x 0.6 mm (L) nominal 
value  
(IEC 336/93)
 
•  Assigned to applications software and 
image files 
1,640 Hz maximum sample rate. 
Effective analog to digital conversion range 
greater than two million to one. 
•  2 system disk drives (Image Disk) 
0.9 mm (W) x 0.7 mm (L) traditional 
methodology 
•  High Performance Drive 
•  73 GB, 3.5 inch form factor each. 
Scan/Control Unit 
•  15,000 RPM 
• 
Large Focal Spot: 
0.9 mm (W) x 0.9 mm (L) nominal 
value 
(IEC 336/93)
 
•  Ultra320 SCSI interface 
Located in base of Operator Console. 
•  Assigned to image files only 
 
- 250,000 uncompressed 512 images  
1.2 mm (W) x 1.2 mm (L) 
traditional methodology 
•  Scan data disk drive: 
Host Computer 
•  High Performance Drive 
•  36 GB, 3.5 inch form factor 
•  Maximum Power: 53.2 kW 
•  Dual SMP 2.66.GHz Intel Xeon processors 
with 512KB L2 cache. 
•  UltraSCSI interface  
•  Beam collimated to 55° fan angle. 
•  Intel Hyper-threading technology. 
•  Scan data disk drive: 
Average time to replace tube: <
 10 hours 
•  High Performance Drive 
•  2GB DDR266 Dual Channel Memory with a 
throughput of 4.2GB/sec 
•  36 GB, 3.5 inch form factor 
High Voltage Generation 
•  UltraSCSI interface 
Image Processor: 
 
•  High-frequency on-board generator. 
Continuous operation during scan.  
•  Standard MOD drive: 
•  Nvidia Quadro4 980XGL AGP 8X graphics 
with 128MB Memory 
•  Magnetic Optical Disk Drive 
•  53.2 kW output power. 
•  Erasable, rewritable media 
•  kVp: 80, 100, 120, 140 
•  Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) Clock 
300Mhz 
•  2.3 GB, 3.5 inch form factor 
•  mA: 10 to 440 mA, 5 mA increments 
•  Assigned to DICOM 3.0 format image 
file. 
•  Graphics Memory Clock 325Mhz 
Maximum mA for each kVp selection: 
 
•  Stores 4,700 lossless JPEG compressed 
512 image files per side 
 
Image Reconstruction Engine 
(GRE) 
KVp Max mA 
80 400 
100 420 
120 440 
140 380 
•  Off-line retrieval of image. Images may 
be viewed as soon as they are restored 
from MOD 
 
 
• 
Custom-designed special purpose 
CT Image Generator 
•  DVD Ram: 
•  Custom CT back projection hardware 
accelerates 2D & 3D back projection. 
•  4.7 GB per side, 5.25" half height form 
factor 
HiLight Matrix II Detector: 
•  Intel Hyper-threading Technology. 
•  Transfer rate 2.7MB/sec 
• 
32-bit floating point data format 
•  Assigned to scan data file and protocol 
file storage/retrieval. 
21,888 individual elements composed by: 8 
rows of 1.25 mm thickness and 16 rows of 
0.625 mm thickness, each containing 888 
active patient elements; 24 reference 
elements. 
• 
2GB DDR226 ECC Dual Channel 
Memory Standard (4.2 GB/sec).
 
 
•  Color monitors: 
Software Architecture: 
•  21 inch diagonal width 
4 typical modes of data output: 
•  1280 x 1024 dot resolution 
•  Software architecture based on industry 
standards and client-server design 
•  8 x 1.25 mm (uses center 16 rows) 
•  Non-interlaced, flicker-free presentation 
•  8 x 2.5 mm (uses all 24 rows) 
•  76 kHz Horizontal deflection frequency 
* Option