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GE Healthcare Senographe DS Acquisition System
Revision 1 Operator Manual 5307907-3-S-1EN
Image Acquisition Procedure
Table 1 Suggested manual techniques
Table 2 Maximum and recommended kV ranges
Compressed
breast
thickness
(mm)
Homogeneously fatty 50% fatty, 50% dense Homogeneously dense
Target/
Filter
kVp mAs Target/
Filter
kVp mAs Target/
Filter
kVp mAs
With grid (contact examination):
< 30 Mo/Mo 25 32 Mo/Mo 26 28 Mo/Mo 26 36
30-40 Mo/Mo 26 36 Mo/Rh 26 45 Mo/Rh 27 50
40-50 Rh/Rh 28 50 Rh/Rh 29 56 Rh/Rh 29 63
50-60 Rh/Rh 29 56 Rh/Rh 29 63 Rh/Rh 30 71
60-70 Rh/Rh 29 71 Rh/Rh 29 80 Rh/Rh 30 80
70-80 Rh/Rh 29 80 Rh/Rh 30 90 Rh/Rh 31 80
> 80 Rh/Rh 30 90 Rh/Rh 30 140 Rh/Rh 31 140
Without grid (magnification examination):
< 30 Mo/Mo 25 25 Mo/Mo 26 36 Mo/Mo 27 56
30-40 Mo/Mo 26 36 Mo/Mo 27 56 Mo/Rh 27 63
40-50 Mo/Rh 28 56 Rh/Rh 29 71 Rh/Rh 30 71
50-60 Rh/Rh 29 71 Rh/Rh 30 80 Rh/Rh 31 71
60-70 Rh/Rh 30 71 Rh/Rh 31 80 Rh/Rh 32 80
70-80 Rh/Rh 31 80 Rh/Rh 32 90 Rh/Rh 33 80
> 80 Rh/Rh 32 80 Rh/Rh 33 110 Rh/Rh 35 125
TRACK FILTER KV RANGE
MAXIMUM RECOMMENDED
Mo Mo 22 thru 32 25 thru 28
Mo Rh 22 thru 40 26 thru 30
Rh Rh 25 thru 49 28 thru 35
FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY!
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