Infrared Monitoring; Creating A New Patient File - Brainlab EXACTRAC INFRARED MONITORING Clinical User Manual

6.4

Infrared Monitoring

6.4.1

Creating a New Patient File

How to Start Before starting IR Monitoring, the patient (wearing infrared body markers) must be positioned at iso-
Infrared Monitoring center on the treatment table.
Patient Position The position of the infrared body markers are displayed in the patient position screens:
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Steps
1. Press Start IR Monitoring in the startup screen (see Page 49).
2. In order to perform infrared-based patient monitoring, you will need to create a new pa-
tient file.
3. Enter a patient name and ID in the fields provided, and a comment if required.
If you do not wish to enter a patient's name, click OK. However, it is not possible to
change a patient's name later in the process.
4. Click OK to generate a new patient file.
Prior to starting this function, you must adjust the couch to the 0° position, and infra-
red body markers must be attached to the patient.
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Clinical User Guide Rev. 1.1, ExacTrac Infrared Monitoring Ver. 1.0