13 - 50 Operator’s Manual
13 Probes and Biopsy
Perform the following procedure:
1. Install the needle-guided bracket:
a. Put on the sterile transducer sheath.
b. Hold the transducer in one hand, select the correct needle-guided bracket and hold it with
the other hand. Match the inside of the bracket with the outside of the transducer
respectively. Mount the bracket onto the transducer.
c. Rotate the locking nuts of the guided bracket at the right and left sides to fix the bracket
and the transducer. Rotate the needle-shaped adjusting nut to the ultimate position as
shown in the figure.
2. Adjust the needle angle to the proper shift as required:
a. Loosen the angle pinch nut.
b. Adjust the angle block to the desired level.
c. Tighten the angle pinch nut.
3. Insert the biopsy needle:
a. Hold the transducer. Press the biopsy needle pressure position to separate it from the V-
shaped guiding block. Put the needle into the V-shaped guiding block of the needle
guided-bracket.
8 Torsion spring of the needle pressure
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9 Biopsy needle pressure position
10 Angle adjusting base