LORAD AFFINITY Series - Warnings, Cautions and Notes; Acronym List

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Service Manual
Preface
Acronym List
This appendix contains tables used for identifying test points, LED indications, fuses,
jumpers, and accessory identification sensor combinations in the Affinity Series System.
1.1 Warnings, Cautions and Notes
Definitions of Warnings, Cautions and Notes used throughout this manual are as follows:
WARNING! This warning alerts you to procedures that you must follow
precisely to avoid causing potentially serious or fatal injury to
yourself or others.
Warning: This warning alerts you to procedures that you must follow
precisely to avoid injury to yourself or others.
Caution: Cautions point out procedures that you must follow precisely to avoid
damage to equipment, loss of data, or corruption of files in software
applications.
Note… Notes indicate important information that must be followed to ensure the
proper operation of the system.
2.0 Acronym List
Table P-1 provides a list of the common Acronyms used throughout the Affinity Series
Service Manual.
Table P-1: List of Acronyms for Affinity
Acronym Definition
21 CFR FDA Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21
AAmps
ACR MAP American College of Radiology Mammography Accreditation Program
ACR/CDC American College of Radiology/Center for Disease Control
AEC Automatic Exposure Control
BR-12 Breast equivalent material
CF Compression Force
cm centimeter
DMM Digital Multimeter
EMI Electro-magnetic Interference
EMO Switch Emergency OFF Switch
ESD Electro-static Discharge
F.A.S.T. Fully Automatic Self-Adjusting Tilt Paddle
HV High Voltage
HTC High Transmission Cellular Grid
HVL Beam Quality Half-Value Layer
I/O Input/Output
IR Image Receptor