Orthoscan TAU 2020 Mini C-Arm

Hi, I’m Christopher Bacon, co-founder of Orthoscan and president of Minicarm.com. Today we’re going to do an overview of the Orthoscan TAU 2020.

Powering On
To turn it on, the green button is in the back. Give it a push. While it boots up, we’re going to take a look at the articulation of the C-arm.

C-Arm Articulation
Let’s do the orbital rotation first. Here’s the minimum height. Here’s the maximum height. And we’ll also do some wig-wag.

Home Screen
It takes about a minute for it to boot up. When it does, you come to this screen. You have four options: you can schedule your cases, you can hit the recall button, you can add your patient information, and you can also start imaging from here.

Entering the Imaging Screen
Just give the fluoro button a tap. You’ll get into the imaging screen. You can see our hand phantom comes up with a beautiful image. One note: don’t tap the button. See how nice this image is. When you start tapping, it gets dark, it gets grainy, and it’s not the best image you can get. So just be patient. Hold the button in for about two seconds and you’ll get a great-looking image.

Bilateral Tube Head Controls
The Orthoscan TAU 2020 has bilateral tube head controls:

• This controls your mode. It changes you from 30 frames per second to 15, 7.5, 2, continuous, and back to 30. Usually you run it at 30 frames per second.
• This is your sterile field lights.
• This changes you into cine mode, which records like a video.
• This saves the image.
• These buttons are the technique control up and down.
• This button puts you back into auto.
• Here’s your X-ray button.
• This rotates your image counterclockwise and clockwise.
• This lets you go through the images that you’ve already taken.
• This tags your image. You can thumb through a couple of others and tag or untag them.

Touchscreen Controls
Now that we’re in the imaging screen, we can use the touchscreen. We can zoom in, navigate around, and double-tap to get back. We can also rotate and double-tap to get back. Up here is your fluoro time and silence alarm. If you reach five minutes or more, you can hit this button to silence the alarm. This is your aluminum filter. This shows you that you’re in adult mode. There are three different pediatric modes.

On-Screen Controls

• Technique up and down, with a button to put it back into auto
• Save that image
• Print that image
• This puts you into cine mode, which is a recording
• This is your negate button
• This tags left or right
• This is your edge: high, off, and low
• This is your frames per second: 15, 7.5, 2, continuous mode, or 30 frames per second
• This is your motion compensation
• This allows you to put an angle on the screen and change the angle. Tap it again to get rid of it.
• This is your brightness control, set to automatic
• This is your collimator. You can change the collimation, take an image, and come out of it.
• This is your mag mode and small field button. To go back to full field, just hit the button again.

Case Review
On the other side is your case review button. You can choose your cases by selecting or deselecting them. You can send them to DICOM, print them, and save them to the hard drive. Here’s your select all and unselect button.

Patient Information
Here’s your patient information button. Put in the first name, last name, and patient ID. You can also choose the anatomy you’d like to image. Right now it’s in adult mode. You can also put it into pediatric modes. There are three different sizes.

Settings and Help
This shows you what all the icons mean on the screen. Just tap anywhere to get out of it. This is your settings screen.

Returning to the Home Screen
This is your home screen button. You’ll get a popup if you haven’t saved all the images. If you’ve saved everything you needed, press OK and you go back to the home screen.

From the Home Screen

• Press the scheduled cases button to add a patient, fill out all the information, and press save.
• Select a patient and go right into the imaging screen.
• Press the recall button to review cases you’ve previously done. You can select one, print images, send them to DICOM, search by patient info, start a new case from a previous case, edit patient information, or delete cases.
• Press case review to show the case images in the case.
• Press the patient info button to enter patient information, choose your anatomy, choose the size of your patient, and hit save.

Powering Off
Once you’re finished, to shut it off, just press the green button in the back. It’s just a momentary switch. Please make sure the machine is fully off before you unplug it.

Contact
This has been an overview of the Orthoscan TAU 2020. If you need sales, service, or support, call us at (800) 643-2998 or send an email to info@minicarm.com. Thank you.