RTI Piranha User manual

Piranha/Cobia & Quick Check Getting Started - English - Version 1.11A
RTI articel number: 9629057-00
Piranha/Cobia & Quick Check
Getting Started

Welcome to Quick Check
Ocean 2014 with Quick Check is a is a powerful
tool for everybody working with Quality
Assurance of X-ray systems. Ocean 2014 can
be used with the X-ray meters Piranha and
Cobia from RTI.

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Table of Contents
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Start the Tablet1.1
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First measurement with Quick Check1.2
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Run Quick Check on a Tablet1.3
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Change Meter Settings1.4
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Piranha1.4.1
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Cobia1.4.2
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Applications with analysis1.5
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Quick Check Favorites1.6
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Detector selection1.6.1
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Create Quick Check Favorites1.6.2
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Save a measurement1.7
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Open an old measurement1.8
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Print1.9
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Transfer data to Excel1.10
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Excel control window1.10.1
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Connect (Fixed format)1.10.2
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Connect (Standard mode)1.10.3
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Send data to Excel1.10.4
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Import/export1.11
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Options1.12
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Close Quick Check1.13

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1Quick Check
Use Quick Check when you just need to make a
quick measurement. Quick Check automatically
adapts to the meter you use and the detector you
have connected. It is fully plug-and-play and any
change you do is automatically detected and Quick
Chick adapts to the new situation. Quick Check is
designed for a tablet (touch screen) but works of
course also on a standard laptop. You can do the
following with Quick Check.
·Quick measurements
·Save
·Print
·Export to Excel
·Applications with analysis
1.1 Start the Tablet
This is a quick introduction to how you get started with the tablet that comes with your meter. The tablet has
Windows 8 and is configured and ready to be used with the meter.
To start measuring:
1. Power on the meter.
2. Power on the Tablet.
3. Windows 8 starts and the Start screen is launched.

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4. You will see the Ocean 2014 tile to the left, click on it to start Ocean 2014.
5. Assuming that your meter is powered on; Ocean 2014 starts in Quick Check mode.
6. Select the modality you want to use:
The coming topics will describe how you perform your first measurement and how you navigate in Quick
Check.
How to turn off the Tablet
It is recommended that you turn off the Tablet, and not just puts it in sleep mode, when you don't use it. It
consumes power even in sleep mode and the battery will be drained quite fast even if you don't use it.
To turn off the tablet:

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1. Press the power button and keep it pressed until the screen shows the following:
2. Release the button and slide the panel down to shut down the Tablet.
1.2 First measurement with Quick Check
By default, Quick Check is launched automatically when Ocean 2014 starts and the meter is available. Use
Quick Check when you just want "a meter" to do a quick measurement. Quick Check is extremely simple to
use since it automatically recognizes what type of meter you have and which detectors you use. It is full plug-
and-play, directly when you unplug or plug in a detector; Quick Check sets up the measurement for you. You
can save data you measure with Quick Check but you must save manually - Quick Check will never ask you if
you want to save. It is also possible to print and export measured data to Excel. Quick check also has built-in
applications for accuracy, linearity, reproducibility, half-value layer and more. Quick check is designed for use
with a tablet and easy to operate directly on a touch screen.
Let us start with a simple measurement to illustrate how to use Quick Check. This example assumes a Piranha
657. If you have another model follow this example and apply it on what you see on your screen when you
use your Piranha.
Make sure your meter is powered on and within distance for Bluetooth communication or connected via USB.
Disconnect any external probe that might be connected (unless you have a Piranha model that only works
with external detector or a Cobia Sense). Assume that we are using a Piranha 657.
1. Start Ocean 2014 or start the Quick Check from the Measure tab on the ribbon bar if you are in Ocean
2014 main view:
(Note: If you use Windows 8; you start Ocean 2014 from the desktop)

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2. Quick Check starts and a menu will be shown. The list is depending on your meter type, it might not
appear at all.
3. Select for example Radiography. For other modalities from here and on; it may be several choices to make
before the measurement screen appear. For example, for mammography you must chose calibration and if
compression plate is used or not.
4. The measurement loads and you are ready to start to measure.
If the selected Quick Check is using a calibration that isn't available in your meter/detector, a dialogue is
shown. You can here select another calibration instead of the one saved in the document.

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In some situations a message is shown with a yellow background; all such messages can be closed by just
clicking or tapping on the yellow background.
5. Make some exposures.
6. You can operate Quick Check with mouse and keyboard or with your fingers if you have a tablet with touch
screen.
Quick Check is designed to be simple to use on a tablet (touch screen) but you can of course also use a
mouse. Below are the most important operations described.

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Toggle between displays and logged data: Click on the button in the lower left corner of the display
panel or sweep left or right on the displays if you use a tablet.
Enlarge waveform: Click on the button in the lower left corner of the waveform graph or double-click on
the waveform. Same to minimize it.
Zoom waveform: Zoom the waveform by holding down the left mouse button and mark the part you want
to zoom. When you have zoomed it is remembered for current exposure. If a new row is automatically
created for the next exposure, the zoom state is inherited for the new row.
Enlarge a display/single display: Double-click on a display.
Change unit of measure: Right-click on a unit and choose a new unit from the list shown. To right-click
one tablet; hold your finger on the unit, remove it when a small square appear.
Change kV range: Click on the kV range indication in the lower part of the screen.
You have now seen the basic function of the Quick Check. You can now try to connect an external detector (if
you have one) and see that Quick Check will directly recognize the probe and ask you what to do.
Read also the full description of Quick Check in the topic Run Quick Check on a Tablet to further see how you
operate Quick Check. This section is followed by more about how to store, print and how to export your
measured data to Excel.
Messages
It is indicated on the lower status bar if a message arrives.
When a message arrives the icon changes to:
You can now click on the icon to open the message list:
Here are all your messages shown. Double-click in the list to read a message. Unwanted messages can be
deleted.

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You can turn off calibration reminders in the Program Options, see more in section Program Options
1.3 Run Quick Check on a Tablet
Quick Check is simple to operate and use both on a tablet with touch screen or a normal laptop. This section
will describe all the actions you can use to operate Quick Check if you use a tablet, as well as a laptop.
Quick Check main screen for standard measurements looks like this:
You have a ribbon bar at the top with different buttons to activate different function. You can click on these
buttons with a mouse click or by tapping on the screen with your finger if you use a tablet.
Switch between display and list with exposures
Click on the button in the lower left corner or sweep on the display area of the screen.