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Philips ClearVue 550 ultrasound system specifications

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Table of contents

1. Introduction 3 6. Measurement and analysis 12

1.1 Applications 3 6.1 Measurement tools 12
Key advantages 3 6.2 High Q automatic Doppler analysis 12
6.3 Clinical option analysis packages 13
2. System overview 4 General imaging analysis 13
2.1 System architecture 4 Ob/Gyn and fertility analysis 13
2.2 Imaging modes 4 Cardiac analysis 13
2D mode 4 Vascular analysis 13
M-mode 5
Anatomical M-mode 5 7. Physical specifications 14
Doppler 5 Physical dimensions 14
Pulsed wave (PW) Doppler 5 High mobility cart 14
Continuous wave (CW) Doppler 5 Control panel 14
Color Doppler 5 Display 14
Tissue Harmonic Imaging (THI) 6 Footswitch 14
Color Power Angio imaging (CPA) 6 ECG and physio 14
3D grayscale imaging 6 Localization options 14
Expanded field of view 6 Power requirements 14
Power cords 14
3. System controls 7 Electrical safety standards 14
3.1 Optimization controls 7 Environmental 14
3.2 Control panel and user interface 7 Temperature 14

4. Workflow 8 8. Philips services 15

4.1 Display annotation 8 Maintenance 15
4.2 Image presentation 8 Service 15
4.3 Cineloop review 8
4.4 Exam documentation 8
4.5 Connectivity 9

5. Transducers 10
5.1 Transducer selection 10
Sector array 10
S4-1 broadband sector array 10
Curved arrays 10
C5-2 broadband curved array 10
C9-4v broadband curved array 10
Linear array 10
L12-4 broadband linear array 10
5.2 Transducer application guide 11

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1. Introduction

The sophisticated ClearVue 550 offers advances in imaging, ergonomics,

Key advantages
and workflow that provide excellent value in ultrasound imaging. • Proprietary Philips Active Array
Featuring Philips Active Array technology, the ClearVue 550 integrates technology for superb images to
key imaging technologies into the transducer to enable exceptional enhance diagnostic confidence
• Lightweight, energy efficient system
imaging performance in a lightweight, affordable platform. with intuitive user interface for
improved ease of use
• Smart, modular design for improved
reliability and serviceability

17 inch fold-down
LCD monitor on fully
articulating, tilt and
swivel arm

Simplified interface through

in-context back-lighting

USB flash port

Wrap-around handle
Cable management hooks

1.1 Applications
Storage tray CD/DVD
• Abdominal
• Small parts and superficial
• Pediatric
Four transducer ports
– Head
EKG plug
– Hips
• Musculoskeletal
• Urology and prostate
• Obstetrical
Integrated footrest
• Gynecological and fertility
• Vascular
– Cerebrovascular
– Peripheral vascular
• Transcranial Doppler
• Cardiac
– Adult
– Pediatric
Four-way swivel wheels

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2. System overview

2.1 System architecture

• All-digital broadband beamformer
• Microfine 2D focusing with dynamic focal tuning
• 170 dB full time input dynamic range
• 32,768 digitally-processed channels
• Continuously variable steering in 2D, color, and Doppler
modes
• Gray shades: 256 (8 bits) in 2D, M-mode, and Doppler
spectral analysis
• Acquisition frame rate: greater than 1128 frames per
second in high frame rate mode (dependent on transducer,
field of view, depth, and angle)

2.2 Imaging modes

• Philips Microfine 2D focusing
• Philips Color Power Angio (CPA)
• Directional Color Power Angio
• M-mode
• Anatomical M-mode
• Color M-mode
• Pulsed wave Doppler Active Array technology integrates key imaging technologies into the
• High PRF pulsed wave Doppler transducer for superb imaging performance in a lightweight cart.
• Continuous wave Doppler
• Freehand 3D
• Color compare mode
• Dual mode 2D mode
• Duplex for simultaneous 2D and Doppler • SonoCT real-time compound imaging
• Triplex mode for simultaneous 2D, Doppler, and • XRES adaptive image processing
color or CPA • Microfine 2D focusing
• 2D optimization signal processing • Frame rate selection
• Tissue Harmonic Imaging (THI) • 16-level digital reconstructed zoom with pan
• Intelligent Doppler • Variable level high-definition zoom
• Reconstructed zoom with pan (read zoom) • Image orientation marker
• Philips high-definition zoom (write zoom) • Cineloop image review (up to 1,200 B/W frames)
• Panoramic • Persistence, adjustable in real time and cineloop review
• Trapezoidal • Selectable compression curves
• Adaptive Doppler • Sector size and steering control
• Adaptive color Doppler • Selectable line density
• Up to eight transmit focal zones plus separation control
• Dual imaging (single and two buffer)
• Philips Chroma imaging with multiple color maps

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 M-mode • Selectable sweep speeds
• Available with all imaging transducers • Selectable grayscale curve for optimal display
• Selectable sweeping rates • Selectable display format (small over large, large over
• Time markers: 0.1 and 0.2 seconds small, side-by-side)
• Chroma colorization with multiple color maps • Full-screen Doppler display which improves diagnoses by
• Selectable display format (small over large, large over enabling easy, accurate caliper placement
small, side-by-side) • Doppler review for retrospective analysis of Doppler data
• M-mode review for retrospective analysis of M-mode Pulsed wave (PW) Doppler
data • Available on all imaging transducers
• Full-screen M-mode display facilitates diagnoses by • Adjustable sample volume size: 0.8 – 28.3 mm
enabling easier, more accurate caliper placement • Displays tissue movement and blood flow in 2D and PW
• Color M-mode on the S4-1, C5-2, and C9-4v transducers Doppler simultaneously
Anatomical M-mode • Triplex mode – displays tissue movement and blood flow
• Uses 2D image as a basis for M-mode analysis at a in 2D, color or CPA, and PW Doppler simultaneously
defined line, independent of transducer orientation • High-PRF capability in all modes including Duplex and
• Makes it easier to keep the M-mode line perpendicular Triplex
to the anatomy, even in abnormally shaped or positioned Continuous wave (CW) Doppler
hearts • Available on cardiac sector transducers only
• Provides data on direction, position, and timing of any • Steerable through 80°
single echo received from any point of the tissue for • Maximum velocity range: 46.9 m/sec
M-mode analysis in any direction, for examining cardiac
Color Doppler
chamber diameters, LV regional wall motion, and location
• Available on all imaging transducers
of accessory pathways
• Adaptive color automatically optimizes color or Color
• Anatomical M-mode trace can be generated or modified
Power Angio frequencies, ensuring excellent sensitivity
post freeze
and color penetration
• Anatomical M-mode on all sector transducers
• Color compare – simultaneously displays real-time
Doppler Color Power Angio, color Doppler, and grayscale images
• Display annotation including Doppler mode, scale (cm/ side-by-side
sec or kHz), pulse repetition frequency, wall filter setting, • Automatic color invert – automatically inverts color
gain, acoustic output status, sample volume size, normal maps to maintain selected color coding when the linear
or inverted, angle correction, grayscale curve steering angle passes through vertical
• Adaptive Doppler – boosts weak signals to improve • Cineloop review
spectrum visibility and enhances pulsed-wave audio • Chroma 2D colorization with multiple color maps
signals for precise flow assessment • 256 color bins
• Intelligent Doppler imaging – automatically maintains • Continuously variable color steering
optimal angle-to-flow to assist in delivering accurate • Trackball-controlled color region of interest: size and
and consistent Doppler velocity measurements (available position
with vascular and general imaging application packages • Maps, filters, color sensitivity, line density, smoothing,
on linear transducers only) echo write priority, color persistence, gain and baseline
• Automatic spectral invert optimized automatically by preset or is user selectable
• Adjustable frequency and velocity display ranges • Velocity and variance displays
• Eight-position zero baseline shift • Color and 2D line density control
• Normal and invert display around horizontal zero line • Selection of color bar display units

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 Tissue Harmonic Imaging (THI) Expanded field of view
• Available on the S4-1, C5-2, and L12-4 transducers • Panoramic imaging – ability to perform point-to-point
• System processing of second harmonic frequencies distance measurement, extended field of view composite
(nonlinear energy) in tissue imaging, and full zoom, pan, cineloop review, and image
• Extends high performance imaging capabilities to all rotation capabilities
patient body types • Trapezoidal imaging – expands field of view on linear
• Image display virtually free of artifacts array transducers up to 21° on each side in vascular and
Color Power Angio imaging (CPA) general imaging applications
• Available on all imaging transducers
• Highly sensitive mode for small vessel visualization
• Fully user-configurable
• Cineloop review
• User-definable presets
• Multiple maps
• Directional CPA
• Individual controls for gain, filters, sensitivity, echo write
priority, and color invert
• Adjustable CPA region of interest: size and position
• User-selectable persistence
• User-selectable blend levels
• TGC control
• Write priority
3D grayscale imaging
• Available on all imaging transducers
• Available with all applications
• Provides a qualitative volume and multiplanar displays
of 3D data set
• Individual controls for manipulating the on-screen 3D
rendering and display options

The ClearVue 550 supports a wide range of applications,

including abdominal, Ob/Gyn, vascular, cardiac, small parts,
musculoskeletal, urology, pediatric, and TCD.

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3. System controls

3.1 Optimization controls

2D Opt signal processing with 2X multi-line parallel

processing and frequency compounding
• Improves tissue contrast resolution and textural perception
• Sharpens lateral beam profile for finer dot size
• Reduces speckle artifacts for increased image clarity
The ClearVue 550’s sleek and intuitive
• 2D Opt key with up to three settings for patient-specific
control panel puts the features and functions
optimization in 2D and color Doppler
you use most often right at your fingertips.

SonoCT real time compound imaging

• High precision beam-steered image compounding for
acquisition of more tissue image information and reduction • Alphanumeric QWERTY keyboard with globalization key
of angle generated artifacts for conversion to local language (English, French, German,
• Multiple beam-steered lines of sight Italian, and Spanish)
• Available on C5-2, C9-4v, L12-4 • User selectable keyboard input language (Roman, Japanese,
• Operates in conjunction with Tissue Harmonic Imaging and Simplified Chinese, Russian, and Portuguese)
duplex Doppler • Trackball with Select and Enter keys for easy system
• Operates in conjunction with XRES imaging navigation
• Integrated stereo speakers
XRES adaptive image procession • Imaging mode keys: 2D, Color Power Angio, M-mode, color
• Enhances images without altering the image resolution Doppler, continuous wave Doppler (CW), pulsed wave
• Improves contrast resolution, reduces artifacts, improves Doppler (PW)
visibility of tissue texture patterns, and improves border • 2D image controls: depth, dual, freeze, zoom, and focus
definition and continuity • Image enhancement controls: THI, dynamic range, gain,
• Available in 2D, Color Power Angio, M-mode, dual imaging, persistence, post-processing map, and smooth
CW Doppler, zoom, post-Freeze, and when capturing loops • Patient specific optimization keys: 2D Opt, transducer
• Applied to grayscale data of 2D images (transducer select), THI, and iSCAN
• Quantitative controls: caliper, calc, erase, trackball
iSCAN intelligent optimization • Doppler or color controls: angle and steer, spectral, scale,
• In 2D mode, automatic adjustment of TGC and receiver baseline, gain, power, volume, duplex, and triplex
gain to achieve optimal uniformity and brightness of tissues • Image acquisition keys: acquire and print, supporting
• In PW Doppler mode, one-button optimization of spectral external print
tracing to improve productivity • Annotation controls: text, erase, arrow, and body marker
• In color mode, automatic adjustment of receiver gain to • Function keys: patient, preset, setup, end exam, physio, hide
improve color fillings ID, and protocol
• Online help key
3.2 Control panel and user interface • Optional online support request feature* provides faster
• Easy-to-learn graphical user interface response to clinical questions and technical issues
• Primary controls readily accessible and logically grouped • Optional proactive monitoring* helps prevent unscheduled
• Commonly used secondary controls located on soft keys downtime
for quick access; soft key functions change dynamically • Lateral gain compensation (LGC) soft keys
based on the currently active mode, preset, or system • Time gain compensation (TGC) slide pot controls
function • Review and report keys
• Other secondary controls accessible through on-screen
menus

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4. Workflow

4.1 Display annotation 4.3 Cineloop review

• On-screen display of all pertinent imaging parameters • Acquisition, storage in memory, and display in real-time and
for complete documentation, including: transducer type duplex modes of up to 1,200 frames of 2D and color images
and frequency range, active clinical options and optimized for retrospective review and image selection
presets, display depth, TGC curve, LGC curve, grayscale, • Single frames of Doppler data and M-mode images can be
color map, frame rate, dynamic range, compression and archived to print or electronic media
contrast enhancement, color gain, color image mode, and • Supports two-buffer dual imaging mode of up to 600
hospital and patient demographic data frames per buffer
• Displayed data can be turned off for generating images • Trackball control of frame-by-frame image selection
used in publication and presentation • Variable playback speed
• Sector width and steering markers • Trim capability
• 2D Opt setting and iSCAN icons • Functions in 2D and Tissue Harmonic Imaging, M-mode,
• Real-time display of Mechanical Index (MI) PW Doppler, CW Doppler, color Doppler, and Color
• Real-time display of Thermal Index (TIb, TIc, TIs) Power Angio imaging modes
• Quick text – allows easy annotation at any time during
an exam 4.4 Exam documentation
• Text – places, moves, erases, modifies or appends • Peripherals
predefined text labels, typed text, and arrows – Digital B/W thermal printer (USB input)
• Body markers – displays body-part icons appropriate for – Support of a range of plain paper printers
the active preset and indicates relative transducer position • Input and output ports
– Body marker location and type can be saved to user – Three USB ports. Uses include connecting the optional
defined preset footswitch, supporting data transfer, and supporting
– Icons selectable via trackball scroll and soft keys qualified plain paper printers
• Dual orientation marker to indicate the active buffer for – Black and white composite video output
two-buffer dual display – S-video output
– VGA output
4.2 Image presentation – LAN connector – used with DICOM networking and
• Up or down Philips Remote Services*
• Left or right • Optional Utilization Reports* provide data to help manage
• Multiple duplex image formats (small over large, large over ultrasound assets, track usage, summarize data about exam
small, side-by-side) types, duration, and referrals
• Depth to 30 cm (exam and transducer specific)

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 Advanced system automation
streamlines your workflow and
improves exam consistency, so you
can focus more on your patients.

4.5 Connectivity • Study manager allows user to digitally acquire, review,

• Three USB ports and edit complete patient studies
• 320 GB hard drive space • Exam directory
• DVD/CD write and read capabilities • Delete and replace recalled image capability
• Philips Remote Services connectivity* allows for virtual • Multiple study archive formats (palette color, RGB, YBR)
on-site visits for both clinical and technical support • DICOM 3.0 print and store service class user
in order to provide faster resolution to issues and • Multiple DICOM servers
questions • Multiple DICOM presets
• Direct digital storage of system configuration backup, • DICOM structured reporting for vascular, cardiac, and
including user-defined presets and OB trending data, Ob/Gyn
to USB or DVD/CD • Configurable print
• Direct digital storage of single frame color and B/W • User may select images to print from all acquired images
images to internal hard disk, USB flash, and CD/DVD • 10BaseT or 100BaseT Ethernet output
• Direct digital storage of B/W and color loops to internal • Site configurable IP address, port, and AE title
hard disk, USB flash, and CD/DVD • Modality performed procedure step (Mpps)
• Integrated multi-session CD/DVD allows storage of • Modality worklist
multiple individual studies to a single disk at different – Works in conjunction with radiology and cardiology
times rather than requiring single batch mode storage information systems
• Supports 4.7 GB DVD – Automatic entry of patient demographics
• Ability to export AVI clips and BMP images to USB flash • Study reports available as DICOM images
for PC viewing • System can use lossy JPG image format with user
• Fully-integrated interface configurable compression ratio
• Extensive image management capability, including
thumbnail image review, cineloop editing, and user-
configurable patient reporting
* Service agreement required for access to Philips Remote Services. Access to
the internet required. Not all remote features available in all countries; contact
your local Philips representative for details.

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5. Transducers

ClearVue 550 introduces Active Array technology with a new type of transducer that
integrates imaging circuitry from the system into the transducer for superb imaging
performance in a small, lightweight product. The system supports a full range of
transducers for a variety of applications such as abdominal, Ob/Gyn, vascular, and cardiac.

Transducer presets help leverage

transducer strengths, and four transducer
connectors allow users to quickly switch
transducers when needed.

Curved arrays
C5-2 broadband curved array
• 5 to 2 MHz extended operating frequency range
5.1 Transducer selection • High-resolution imaging for abdominal and Ob/Gyn
• Electronic switching of up to four imaging transducers applications
• System supports up to four transducers to meet a wide • Supports 2D, M-mode, color, PW Doppler, Tissue
range of clinical needs Harmonic Imaging, and Color Power Angio imaging
• Multiple user-selectable transmit focal zones; up to eight • Multi-angle biopsy kit available
focal zones on selected transducers C9-4v broadband curved array
• Continuous dynamic receive focusing on all transducers • 9 to 4 MHz extended operating frequency range
• End-fire sector, 11 mm radius of curvature,
Sector array 150° field of view
S4-1 broadband sector array • Supports 2D, M-mode, color, PW Doppler, and Color
• 4 to 1 MHz extended operating frequency range Power Angio imaging
• High-resolution imaging for abdominal, cardiac, and • Endovaginal applications
Ob/Gyn applications • Biopsy kit available
• Supports 2D, M-mode, color, PW and CW Doppler,
Tissue Harmonic Imaging, and Color Power Angio imaging Linear array
• Biopsy kit available L12-4 broadband linear array
• 12 to 4 MHz extended operating frequency range
• 21° of trapezoidal imaging
• High-resolution imaging for superficial applications
including vascular, small parts, and musculoskeletal
• Supports 2D, color, Tissue Harmonic Imaging, PW
Doppler, and Color Power Angio imaging
• Multi-angle biopsy kit available

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5.2 Transducer application guide

Transducer

Transducer S4-1 C5-2 C9-4v L12-4

Type of array Sector Curved Curved Linear
Application
Abdominal 0-4 cm   
Abdominal 5-10 cm   
Abdominal > 11 cm  
Gyn vaginal 8-10 cm (max. depth) 
Gyn transabdominal < 10 cm  
Gyn transabdominal > 11 cm  
OB vaginal 6-8 cm (max. depth) 
OB 1st trimester 10-12 cm (max.)  
OB 2nd trimester 12-18 cm (max.)  
OB 3rd trimester 15-20 cm (max.)  
OB nuchal translucency 
Pediatrics/neonatal abdominal small  
Pediatrics abdominal large  
Pediatric hips 
Pediatrics cephalic 
Vascular 0-3 cm 
Vascular 3-8 cm  
Cardiac < 50 lb/22.7 kg 
Cardiac > 50 lb/22.7 kg 
Breast 
Transcranial Doppler 
Small parts < 3 cm 
Small parts > 3 cm 
Musculoskeletal 
Prostate  
Biopsy guides Reusable & Reusable & Reusable & Reusable
disposable disposable disposable

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6. Measurement and analysis

6.1 Measurement tools

• 2D distance
• 2D circumference or area by ellipse, continuous trace,
trace by points
• 2D curved-linear distance
• M-mode distance (depth, time, slope)
• Manual Doppler distance
• Manual Doppler trace
• Automatic Doppler trace - traces frozen spectral display
to calculate and display user-selected measurements in
most presets
• Time and slope measurements in Doppler and M-mode
– Ao dec time
– MV dec time
– PA dec time
– PA acc time
• Doppler values containing PI, RI, S/D indices
• 2D volume
• Heart rate
• Trackball-controlled electronic measurement calipers:
eight sets
• User-defined protocols, measurements, and equations
• On-the-fly measurement labels
• Fully-editable results data sheet
• Integrated patient exam report
• Moveable results box can be moved to any corner of • Vascular
the screen – Automatic real-time display of:
• User-defined measurements - Time-averaged mean velocity (or frequency)
• User-defined calculations - Resistive index
• User-defined fetal growth tables - Pulsatility index
- Systolic/diastolic ratio and diastolic/systolic ratio
6.2 High Q automatic Doppler analysis - Acceleration/deceleration times
• Automatic real-time and retrospective tracing of: • Cardiology
– Instantaneous peak velocity (or frequency) – Automatic real-time display of:
– Instantaneous intensity weighted mean velocity (or - Peak velocity
frequency) - Peak gradient
– User-configurable display of values – Display of:
– Adjustable goal posts to within a single heart cycle, - Cardiac output
allowing quantification of any portion of the cycle - VTI
(for example systole only) - Mean velocity – mean gradient

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6.3 Clinical option analysis packages Cardiac analysis
• Comprehensive measurements, calculations, and • Volume by area or length method
application-specific reports with embedded images, • M-mode analysis
including expanded cardiac, vascular, Ob/Gyn, and general • Peak and mean gradients
imaging capabilities for thorough exam documentation • Pressure half time
• Continuity equation
General imaging analysis • Diastolic function
• General abdominal • Cardiac output
• Small parts • Qp:Qs ratio
• Pediatric general • dP/dt
• Musculoskeletal • Pulmonary vein analysis
• Valvular analysis
Ob/Gyn and fertility analysis
– Proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA)
• Fetal biometry
– E/A ratio
• Biophysical profile
• Ventricle analysis
• Amniotic fluid index
– Ejection fraction (via Teichholz or cubed method)
• Early gestation
– Simpson’s biplane and single plane
• Fetal long bones
– LV mass
• Fetal cranium
– IVRT
• Nuchal thickness
• Other OB measurements: Vascular analysis
– 2D echo • Abdominal vascular
– Fetal heart M-mode • Cerebrovascular
– Fetal Doppler • Transcranial vasculature protocols
– Echo Doppler • Right and left, lower and upper extremity protocols
– User-defined fetal growth tables • Optional tools: percent diameter area reduction
• OB calculations and tables are user-definable – Automated finding codes and user comments
• OB trending data for up to ten studies per patient
• Gynecology and fertility
– Uterus
– Right and left ovary
– Right and left follicles

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7. Physical specifications

Physical dimensions ECG and physio

Depth 23.0 in/58.4 cm • One three-lead ECG input
Height 53.6 – 59.8 in/136.1 – 151.9 cm • Selectable ECG triggered skipping between 1 and 20 beats
Control panel height 33.0 in/83.7 cm
(non-adjustable) Localization options
Width 20.5 in/52 cm Software
Weight 115 lb /52 kg (with printer) English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese
High mobility cart
• Easy maneuverability Training and user documentation
• Wrap around handles for portability Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish,
• Four-wheel swivel ability Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
• Two-wheel lock brake Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
• Lightweight cart frame Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
• User replaceable acquisition-module and printer
• Built-in A/C line conditioner provides isolation from voltage Online help
fluctuation and electrical noise interference English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish,
• Internal low noise fan Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese

Control panel Power requirements

• Facing towards user at 10° incline Power 450VA
• Fixed height Power consumed 300VA
• Simplified interface through in-context back-lighting Frequency 50 to 60 Hz
Voltage 100 to 240 VAC
Display
• 17-inch (338 x 270 mm) high-resolution color monitor Power cords
• Mounted on fully articulating arm with tilt and swivel • Available for electrical standards worldwide
– Tilt: -60°/+90° (fully flat)
– Swivel: +/-90° Electrical safety standards
• From home position display lifts +6.0 inches • CSA C22.2 No. 601.1
• SXGA resolution (1280 x 1024) 60 Hz, non-interlaced RGB • IEC 60601-1
• System output: SXGA (1280 x 1024) 60 Hz non-interlaced • UL 60601-1
RGB • EN 60601-1
• 0.264 mm dot pitch
• Brightness control, automatic backlight stability (BLS) Environmental
control (BLS ensures quick warm-up and consistent light Temperature
output over operational life) System 10-40° C at 15-80% relative humidity
• In-plane switching (IPS) panel for superior viewing angle (non-condensing)
and grayscale reproduction Printer 10-40° C at 15-80% relative humidity
(non-condensing)
Footswitch Heat dissipation <700 BTUs/hour (fully loaded)
• Three pedals
• Allows freeze, acquire, and print functions

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8. Philips services

Maintenance • On-line support request

• Proven reliable platform – Simplifies support engagement
• Optional service agreements to: – Provides faster response to clinical questions and
– Contain risk technical issues
– Maximize uptime – User can enter request directly on the ultrasound system
– Access Philips best-in-class service • Proactive Monitoring
– Helps prevent unscheduled downtime
Service – Monitors key system parameters
• Clinical applications support available – Sends an alert to Philips call center so action can be taken
• Philips Remote Services connectivity* allows for many before system operation is affected
advanced service features, including: • Optional Utilization Reports provide data to help manage
– Virtual on-site visits for both clinical and technical the site’s ultrasound assets
support in order to provide faster resolution to issues – System and transducer usage information
and questions – Data on number and types of studies, as well as study
– Remote clinical education duration
– Remote log file transfer minimizes downtime by allowing – Provides data for staff credentials and accreditation
faster diagnosis of problems by call center personnel – Helps identify opportunities for outreach and referral
communications

Lightweight and small in size, the

ClearVue 550 is easy to maneuver
and is a perfect fit in small spaces.

* Service agreement required for access to Philips Remote Services. Access to

the internet required. Not all remote features available in all countries; contact
your local Philips representative for details.

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Philips Healthcare is part of
Royal Philips Electronics

How to reach us
www.philips.com/healthcare
healthcare@philips.com

Asia
+49 7031 463 2254

Europe, Middle East, Africa

+49 7031 463 2254

Latin America
+55 11 2125 0744

North America
+1 425 487 7000
800 285 5585 (toll free, US only)

For more information visit www.philips.com/ClearVue550

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