Introduction - SA Instruments 1030 Operation Manual

This Operation Manual accompanies the release of Revision 7.12 of the PC software
for SAII's Model 1025, 1025L, 1025T and the Model 1030 next generation MR-
compatible Small Animal Monitoring and Gating System. Nearly every major medical
school in the world has at least one of SA Instruments monitoring and gating systems
and many have several. We are grateful to all those medical researchers who have
used SAI equipment and offered constructive comments allowing us to improve the
performance and capabilities of our systems.
The Model 1030 monitoring and gating system measures and records physiological
parameters of small animals.
temperature (two ways), pressure including invasive blood pressure (two ways), oxygen
saturation, end-tidal CO
auxiliary input channels which can be used as a data interface for equipment such as a
stimulator, ventilator, additional probes, the MR scanner, etc.
The system generates an output trigger or gate based on a user defined algorithm
composed of nearly any combination of the measurements. It also provides flexible
control for air and fluid based heaters to regulate animal temperature and incorporates
a MR-compatible ventilator to regulate and control animal respiration.
Chapters 2. 3, and 4 of the Operation Manual cover basic system operation. This
information may be all that is needed for some users. Viewing and reformatting trend
data for export to a spread sheet program is covered in Chapter 7. The SnapView
program to view SnapShot data files is covered in Chapter 8. Many advanced features
such as the advanced gating menu, time stamping and inversion timing are discussed
in Chapter 15. A troubleshooting guide with useful tips is presented in Appendix C.
I encourage new users as well as those familiar with most of the system's capabilities to
study the waveform examples in Appendix E. Valuable information on obtaining reliable
triggers even when large artifacts are present in the ECG waveform can be found in
Appendix C. The waveform examples and associated comments should help
overcome most of the pitfalls present in monitoring and gating small animals in the MR
environment.
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upgrades and extended system capabilities. PC-sam software upgrades are free on
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Please do not hesitate to contact us at service@i4sa.com or (631) 689-9408, if you
have questions, comments or need additional information.
Ron Morris
President
SA Instruments, Inc.
Stony Brook, New York, USA
August 2013
It currently measures ECG, respiration (two ways),
and minimally inspired CO
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Revision C, August 2013

Introduction

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