Siemens ACUSON Cypress

Transferring Studies
9-2 ACUSON Cypress™ Operator’s Manual
Exporting Images from the Cypress System
Overview
Studies and their images can be exported from the Cypress system via the stan-
dard magneto-optical (
MO) drive, or via the optional network feature in the fol-
lowing ways:
 DICOM format to MO disk.
 Native Cypress system format to MO disk.
 DICOM format to a DICOM server via a network (if network option is installed).
 Multimedia files to MO disk.
 Multimedia files to a computer via a network.
You have the option to export all data, or you can specify that only the report, all
images, or flagged images are sent. Once the study is exported, the study can
be deleted from the internal hard drive using the Patient menu. This frees up
space on the internal hard drive.
DICOM Format to MO Disk
Studies and their images can be exported in DICOM (Digital Imaging and Com-
munications in Medicine) format to the
MO drive. The images can be stored
uncompressed, or compressed in Run Length Encoded (
RLE), or JPEG com-
pressed formats. To review the images stored on the
MO disk, the images must
be opened on a
DICOM review station that accepts 3.5 inch MO disks of the
same capacity.
Restrictions:
 Studies stored in DICOM format cannot be opened for review on the Cypress
system or other ACUSON ultrasound acquisition platforms.
 An MO disk used in the Cypress system should contain only Cypress studies;
it is recommended that studies from the Cypress system and studies from
other image acquisition devices not be stored on a single
MO disk at the
same time.
 It is up to the user to determine compatibility between the Cypress system
DICOM images and the DICOM review station. Refer to the DICOM Conform-
ance Statements for the Cypress system and the review station for their
respective capabilities.