Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, IMS, BHU Specification for 2D & 3D Echocardiography Machine with Color Doppler, TEE & Peripheral Doppler attachments S.No. State of the art, fully digital, latest generation, high end, technologically advanced, electronic phased array 1. transthoracic, 2-D with Colour Doppler with Transoesophageal with Peripheral Doppler and live 3-D with Color Doppler Echocardiography Machine. 2. Should have the following applications (all application packages should be integrated and built into the system). a. Adult and pediatric transthoracic 2-D with Color Doppler Echocardiography. b. Adult/Pediatric Color Doppler Transoesophageal Echocardiography. c. Adult/Pediatric Color Doppler Echocardiography with live 3-D Echo imaging. d. Facility for i. Image guided Arterial venous puncture in difficult cases ii. ii. Image guided Biopsy e. Stress Echocardiography. f. Contrast Echocardiography. g. Peripheral Vascular Echocardiography. h. Tissue Doppler Echocardiography. i. Tissue Harmonic imaging capability having following harmonic modes:- i. Tissue Harmonic ii. Contrast harmonic iii. Harmonic Angio iv. Quantification of Harmonic Imaging j. Should have advanced cardiac features like?automated EF, CO, calculation and strain quantification. 3. Fully adjustable, flicker free, at least 15 inch flat panel, high resolution, color monitor. System architecture should be designed to simultaneously process the entire bandwidth and broad-band transducers 4. frequency from 1 MHz to 15 MHz. 5. System should support, phased array, convex and linear array transducer technologies. 6. System must be capable of acquisition of frame rates upto 300 frames/sec. 7. Should have optimal frame rates for better resolution during 2-D color imaging and cine loop review.
8. Should have TEC & LCG gain controls for additional level of flexibility for image quality control or equivalent. Imaging modes 2-D, M-Mode, steerable PW/CW Doppler (in all phased array transducers) with high sensitive color 9. flow. High definition, acoustic zoom for enlarging section of 2-D and color flow images with more acoustic information for 10. greater clarity and detail while maintaining an optimal frame rate. No image reduction while coupling with M-Mode. Color flow imaging for :- 1. Increased lateral and spatial resolution. 2. Detection of even subtle areas of turbulence, displaying a more physiological blood flow appearance without 11. loss in frame rate. 3. Color flow with capability of automatically picking up color flow as a function of focal depth. 4. Color Angiography. 12. System must allow high frame rate acquisition of tissue motion (up to 250 fps). System must be capable of assigning high resolution 2-D and Tissue Doppler from the same pulse to achieve high frame rate. 13. System should allow Strain Quantification, Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI), Velocity mode quantification, the myocardial velocity and derives the strain rate and strain along user defined M-lines. 14. The system shall provide 180 db full time input dynamic range. 15. Color Kinesis (CK) tool for displaying semi-automated borders over time parametrically. Cine-loop memory preferably more than 120 MB high grade. a. High frame rate review for better clarity of play back images study in slow motion. 16. b. Quad loop with memory for pre and post image comparison for any procedure. c. Memory 256 frames or more in quad loop. d. Frame grabber facility for analysis. 17. ECG triggering facility. 18. Interactive self test facility. 19. Facility for software revisions and up-gradations. 20. Omniplane TEE imaging capability with tissue harmonic imaging, small tip size. Should bne capable of use even in 21. pediatric patients. Acoustic quantification and Color Kinesis for objective quantitative assessment of cardiac function including LV volumes for real time beat to beat ejection fraction and other parameters. 22. 3 Transducer ports for simultaneous use. 23. Transthoracic Omniplane transducer capability for 3-D applications.
24. Advanced quantification including Cardiac 3-D quantification and 3-D viewing, Cardiac 2-D Quantification, REegion of interest quantifications. Automated intima-media thickness and strain quantification. 25. Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) views, 3-D quantification from MPR includes distance, area, LV volume, EF and mass on MPR display, 3-D slice plane. 26. Single button automated optimization of TGC gain and compression level for optimal system performance. 27. Single button automated optimization of Doppler, PRF and baseline for optimal Doppler waveform display. 28. System should be able to capture full volume data in 3-D imaging. 29. System should have live 3-D imaging capability with color or equivalent. 30. Reconstructed MPR images from acquired 3-D data sets shall be of comparable image quality to original gray scale image quality. System should have inbuilt image management facility with facility for direct storage of images and loops in the hard 31. disc drive and also thumb nail review to view and edit images, loops and reports. Should also have onscreen recall, measurement and text editing facilities. 32. System should have facility to transfer images to DVD RW, CD-RW. Must support JPEG format, DICOM format, AVI format for loop storage. Transferred images must be viewed on PC without any need of special software. 33. System should have retrospective capture of up to 5 seconds while in live imaging. 34. System shall support acquisition, storage in local memory, and display in real time and duplex modes of more than 2000 frames. 35. System shall support import and export of 3-D data to a removable media and should have bidirectional data flow facility and should be DICOM compatible. 36. Should be up-gradable to next generation system on site. 37. System should have direct connectivity for Ink Jet (B/W or colored ) printer. Should have a built in digital archival systems for image storage and archival with reporting facilities. The images 38. should be stored and analyzed with true frame rates, extensive post processing, re-measurement, analysis, generation of new reports. Magnetic Optical disc, CD and floppy drives should be available. 39. Should provide software up-gradation free of cost for next five years. 40. System should have voice command facility. 41. System should have networking facility as standard. 42. Should have facility for color power Angio, highly sensitive mode for small vessel visualization with cine loop review, with controls for gain, filters, sensitivity. 43. Should have 80 GB or more of storage capacity.
44. Transducers :- a. Electronic phased array sector probes with frequency range of 1.0-12 MHz with 2-D, M-Mode steerable PW, CW and HDCFI capability. b. Linear array with trapezoid display with frequency range of 3.5 MHz and more. c. Convex array capability with 2-D, M-Mode, PW & CFM. d. Adult multiplane TEE Transducer for infinite views of heart with minimum deflection. e. Pediatric TGEE capability (Multiplane). f. Transthoracic Live 3-D probes 3-1 MHz g. Per-operative probe and its package. 45. System Peripherals a. S-VHS-VCR with calculation facility on play back. Colored Thermal Printer with print command from machine key-board. 46. System should be quoted with the following items. a. Live 3-D Color Doppler probe and system with all application packages. b. Adult Cardiac electronic phased array probe (Broadband). c. 1.9 MHz C/W probe d. Pediatric cardiac electronic phased array probe (Broadband). e. Trapezoidal/Linear probe for vascular application. f. Multiplane Adult TEE probe g. Multiplane Pediatric TEE probe h. Rates of the per operative probe should be quoted separately. i. Quad loop for serial studies with high frame rate review. j. Harmonic imaging capability in al modes (Tissue, contrast, angio). k. Super VHS VCR l. Color printer image acquired on computer with high resolution print out on plain paper. m. Integrated Strees Echo package. n. Digital storage and retrieval. o. Latest Pentium PC, CD, DVD writer with image management software and color laser printer. p. Latest color Thermal printer. q. 3 KVA online UPS with a back upto of 30 minutes minimum from any reputed brand (APC & Tata Liebert). r. Echo Cardiographic patient couch and chair for the Doctor. s. Furniture for Echo Room and appropriate air- conditioning for the machine. 47. The company should also provide the networking for imaging modality and network hospital management system with server and internet connectivity. Rates for this facility may be quoted separately. 48. Original manufacture s product catalog and specification sheets should be attached. Photocopy or computer print will not be accepted
49. All information in the tender document must be supported with product data sheet. All information asked for must be provided in the same order as in the specification. Incomplete and ambiguous information will not be accepted. 50. The machine should be provided with 5 years guarantee including spares & service. 51. A certificate stating that spare parts will be available for 10 years from the date of supply to ensure proper functioning of machine (Rate list of the spares valid for 10 years should also be submitted). 52. Annual comprehensive maintenance contract rates for 10 years after the expiry of guarantee period should also be quoted. 53. The rates should be quoted FOR up to Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, (U.P.). 54. L.C will be opened for the purchase of the equipment. 55. Company should demonstrate the machine before opening of the tender. Both offers meet most of the Tender Technical specifications and Recommended for Technical approval.