About this task
The phantom remains in the magnet for this test. This test can be run with a variety of coil/phantoms/holders, but it will fail if you do not have the right combination.Step-by-step instructions
- Open the Service Desktopo Manager.
- From the Service Desktop Manager, click Service Browser.
- From the Image Quality tab, select Daily Automated Quality Assurance.
- Click Click here to start this tool to open the tool and click OK to the prompt(s).
- Verify that the Ghosting Level and Geometric Accuracy option is not selected.
- Verify the currently connected RF coil is displayed in the Selected Coil field.
- If there is more than one coil configuration for the connected coil, select the desired coil configuration from menu.
- If a coil is not plugged in, the tool will list the Body coil.
- From Select Scan Plane menu, choose the desired SNR testing plane.
- Click Start to initiate the test.
- The Abort button stops data acquisition/post-processing before completion. When selected, the system may take up to 30 seconds to complete the abort process.
- If the connected RF coil is changed after the DAQA tool has started, selecting the Start button displays a "Coil not Valid" message. Click OK and the tool refreshes the main user interface with the information of the new connected coil. Confirm the UI settings and click Start again to begin data acquisition.
- Click Yes in the Confirm! window to acknowledge phantom placement and landmark.
- A progress bar indicates the status.
- The system collects one signal image and one noise image and displays the values for signal, noise, SNR, Transmit Gain (TG) in 0.1dB units and the center frequency (CF) in units of Hz in the Test Complete window.
- Record the results and click OK to the prompt.
- Click Exit.
