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walkerrac on Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:37 pm
Hello All,
I'm in the market for new equipment. Is anyone using the GE E9? I've heard good reports about it (indirectly!) but would be grateful for any experience direct form the horses mouth! Thanks!
Rachel Waker
(11 weeks til Christmas!)
I'm in the market for new equipment. Is anyone using the GE E9? I've heard good reports about it (indirectly!) but would be grateful for any experience direct form the horses mouth! Thanks!
Rachel Waker
(11 weeks til Christmas!)
walkerrac- Number of posts: 9
Location: bath
Registration date: 2008-02-13 
Re: GE E9
Jo Walker on Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:15 pm
We've got one and i LOVE IT 
The ergonomics are fab
Probes nice and light (only quibble is that they all have dimples on to allow fitment of biopsy guides which tend to get clogged with gel as the day goes on and are hard to clean without using a cottin bud.)
The image quality is superb (well in comparison to our old HDI 5000's
)
There is SOO much you can change on it (if you want to optimise something you can change just about anything you can wish for)
The controls seem very user friendly, and nice options for saving images easily on USB etc.
The colour sensitivity is spot on.
I scanned a baby's ischaemic arms the other day and was amazed that the resolution could pick up the vessels <1mm and demonstrate high resistance flow <10cm/s. The acute occlusion was easy to see in the bmode.
The scan on the old machine would not have been anywhere near as good or maybe wouldn't have managed at all.
Also when we tested the E9, i was struggling scanning the runoff in a graft patient on our HDI 5000(the graft was fine but poor views distally due to excessive calcification). I moved to the logiq E9 and the views were comparitively easy and so much more detailed. There was much less acoustic shadowing etc. I guess that this is due to the much higher power outputs now used by manufacturers (prob due to rising obesity etc).
hope this helps
The ergonomics are fab
Probes nice and light (only quibble is that they all have dimples on to allow fitment of biopsy guides which tend to get clogged with gel as the day goes on and are hard to clean without using a cottin bud.)
The image quality is superb (well in comparison to our old HDI 5000's
)There is SOO much you can change on it (if you want to optimise something you can change just about anything you can wish for)
The controls seem very user friendly, and nice options for saving images easily on USB etc.
The colour sensitivity is spot on.
I scanned a baby's ischaemic arms the other day and was amazed that the resolution could pick up the vessels <1mm and demonstrate high resistance flow <10cm/s. The acute occlusion was easy to see in the bmode.
The scan on the old machine would not have been anywhere near as good or maybe wouldn't have managed at all.
Also when we tested the E9, i was struggling scanning the runoff in a graft patient on our HDI 5000(the graft was fine but poor views distally due to excessive calcification). I moved to the logiq E9 and the views were comparitively easy and so much more detailed. There was much less acoustic shadowing etc. I guess that this is due to the much higher power outputs now used by manufacturers (prob due to rising obesity etc).
hope this helps
Jo Walker- AVS
- Number of posts: 21
Location: Leicester
Job Title: Clinical Vascular Scientist
Registration date: 2007-12-03 -
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