Servicing the Philips Ingenuity & Brilliance Family CT Systems
Overview
Philips Ingenuity/Brilliance CT Family Systems Maintenance is a skills development course designed as a continuation of the “Principles of Servicing Multivendor CT Systems course”. Through attending this course, the service professional will become self-confident in working on the gantries, patient transports, DMS assemblies, 6/10/16/40/64/128 slice DAS systems, image processing systems, X-ray control systems, rotor controls, and operator control systems of the Ingenuity/Brilliance CT family. Hands-on lab time is emphasized and makes up approximately 80% of the overall course content.
Prerequisites
To attend this course, the service professional must have an extensive knowledge of CT physics, physical principles and service procedures gained through attendance at the RSTI “Principles of Servicing Multivendor CT Systems” course or equivalent training and experience.
Objectives
Following attendance of this course, participants will be able to:
- Perform scheduled maintenance on Philips Ingenuity & Brilliance CT systems
- Change the X-ray tube, realign and recalibrate the X-ray generator
- Calibrate, replace and align the collimator
- Calibrate, service, and use diagnostic tools to evaluate performance of the DAS and detector assembly
- Calibrate, replace and align the hardware associated with the gantry and patient transport
- Troubleshoot gantry, patient transport and X-ray system problems
- Diagnose and correct problems in the digital acquisition system and detector array
- Diagnose and correct problems in the image generation system
- Perform PM procedures
- Perform troubleshooting, error log analysis, replacement, and calibration procedures.
Tuition: $12995
Course Length: 2 Weeks
CEU's Awarded: 8 CEU’s
Dates:
- Oct 13-24, 2025
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Course Outline
- System operation and power distribution
- Systems operational parameters
- Major system component identification
- System controls
- Safety
- Interlocks
- Patient registration/scheduling
- Exam/technique settings
- System architectures
- System block diagrams
- System revision changes
- Power distribution
- Power distribution diagrams
- Main AC power
- Sub-system AC power
- DC power supplies introduction and overview
Lab Activities
- Scheduling an exam
- Patient registration
- Selecting technique parameters
- Scout view
- Axial views
- Helical views
- Power distribution cont’d
- Verify AC power supplies
- Main power distribution
- Gantry power
- Table power
- Console Power
- Verify AC power supplies
- Verify DC power supplies
- Control system power supplies
- Gantry power supplies
- Stationary
- Rotating
- Table power supplies
- X-ray system power supplies
- X-ray generator
- X-ray tube rotor control
- Collimator
- Detector/DAS area DC power supplies
- Motor verification and replacement
- Gantry rotation
- Axial speed control
- Axial motor driver
- Harmonization/encoding
- Patient transport/table movement and indexing
- Tabletop horizontal control
- Speed control
- Motor drivers
- Harmonization/Encoding
- Table vertical travel
- Speed control
- Motor drive
- Position indication
- Tabletop horizontal control
- Gantry rotation
Lab Activities
- Motor verification and replacement
- Gantry rotation
- Axial driver verification
- Axial motor driver waveforms
- Rotational speed tests
- Drive assembly mechanical adjustments
- Encoder verification
- Gantry rotation
- Patient transport
- Vertical motor driver waveforms
- Vertical position indication
- Horizontal motor driver waveforms
- Encoder verification
- Laser adjustments
- X-ray generation
- High voltage control
- Filament controls
- Filament drive
- Rotor controller
- Collimator controls
- Filter control
- MRC X-ray tube change
- Required calibrations and alignment
Lab Activities
- MRC X-ray tube change
- De-install procedures
- Installation procedures
- High voltage control waveforms
- mA calibration
- DFS calibration
Lab Activities
- Rotor control waveforms
- Collimator control waveforms
- Collimator alignment
- Filter position control verification
- Beam on window adjustment
- Plane of rotation adjustment
- ISO center adjustment
- Detector and DAS
- Detector architectures
- Maintenance issues
- Detector replacement
- DAS architectures
- Pre-amp/channel boards
- DAS control
- Data convolution
- Detector architectures
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- Data transmission
- Fiber optics
- Slip ring data transfers
- Brushes
- Waveguide
- RF transmitters
- Data transmission
Lab Activities
- Pre-amp/channel board verification
- Detector output mapping
- Pre-amp measurements
- Detector/DAS replacement
- Removal procedures
- Installation and alignment
- Calibration
- Data transfer verification
- DAS data output
- Data transfer verification
- Data to image processing verification
- Image processing and handling
- Front end processing
- Temporary preprocessed data storage
- Image reconstruction
- Processed image handling
- Image generation for display
- Image storage
- System disk
- DICOM
Lab Activities
- Image reconstruction system testing
- Image processor
- Image generator
- Image reconstruction testing
- Real time reconstruction
- Retro-reconstruction
- Manage image files
- Image disks
- Replacement
- Managing storage space
- DICOM setup
- Image disks
- System control and image quality
- System host computer
- FRU’s
- HDD’s
- System to gantry control
- Stationary controls
- Rotating controls
- System to x-ray system control
- X-ray generation
- Collimation/filter
- System to image processing/handling
- Image quality control tests
- System host computer
Lab Activities
- System control communications verification
- System state back-up and restore
- QC phantom image evaluation
- Resolution
- Contrast
- CT number tracking
- Image noise
- System troubleshooting
- Electronic
- Software assisted
- First Visit Checklist
- Course review
- Final exam
- Course evaluation