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Image Quality Analysis is highly subjective and should not be used as the sole means to troubleshoot system performance problems.

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The most common image Ghosting produced by the Signa MR system is in the Frequency encoding direction.

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When troubleshooting Ghosting Artifacts, you may suspect the RF and Gradient Subsystem. Gradient and RF outputs must be extremely stable. A failure in the Envelope Feedback System could cause this problem.

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Zipper Artifact is a constant RF frequency that will display itself as a strait black and white line through the Field Of View. The RF Door is highly susceptible to "RF leakage" due to its constant use and subsequent wear.

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Distortions in the image could be caused by degraded shim.

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Signal Voids in a Head image can be caused by a large amount of dental fillings near the imaging Field Of View.

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The customer is complaining of poor SNR, grainy or "flat" looking images across many patient studies on all the coil configurations. The problem is most likely a bad Body Preamp.

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You run SPT on a PM and the data results indicate a System Gain Problem. (Required change too great) The system had passed this part of SPT many times before. It is possible that you have a faulty dynamic disable bias driver or Hybrid Splitter.

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An electrical arc generated by an electrical device near the MR system can cause Corduroy or Spike Noise artifact.

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The most likely cause of the corduroy artifact in any image, is due to the presence of a momentary high frequency short duration RF pulse within the receiver bandwidth. window.

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