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5-8 ACUSON Cypress™ Operator’s Manual
When to Use the Flag Function
Removing Loops from a Study
If a patient's study contains 50 loops and you want to trim the study to 20 loops,
follow these steps:
1. First flag the 20 loops you want to keep in the study.
2. Press PATIENT and highlight the Date and Time of the study.
3. Click [REMOVE].
4. An option box opens. Click the Unflagged Images radio box and then click
[
YES].
All frames, loops, and series not flagged are deleted. Note that deleted data
cannot be retrieved.
Removing Unflagged Loops
Since stress loops labeled with both a View and Stage are flagged automati-
cally, you can easily remove all the unflagged loops from the study.
1. Press PATIENT and highlight the Date and Time of the study.
2. Click [REMOVE].
3. An option box opens. Click the Unflagged Images radio box and then click
[
YES].
ALL frames, loops, and series not flagged are deleted. Note that deleted data
cannot be retrieved.
Transferring a Study in Multimedia Format
To transfer an entire patient study to a network server or an MO disk for perma-
nent storage and also send the selected data to a computer in a multimedia for-
mat, follow these steps:
1. Flag the selected images.
2. Press the PATIENT key and highlight the study Date and Time.
3. Click [SEND].
4. In the Multimedia section, check Network as the destination and click the
Only Flagged Loops radio box.