Using the Reading Protocol Editor From User Settings

Introduction

When you launch the Reading Protocol editor from User Settings, you can edit or create one or more reading protocols independent of the Viewer or study information. Depending on your role and privileges, you can then save the reading protocol to yourself or other users.

Use the reading protocol editor to change DICOM or viewport properties to select series for display in a user reading protocol.

Match Properties

The reading protocol you select inherits the match properties of the protocol you selected.

  • You can only change the match properties for modality and procedure match protocols.
  • For all other protocols, you cannot change the match properties.

Saving Reading Protocols

The options to save a reading protocol in User Settings depends on your privilege:

  • Manage System Reading Protocols privilege:
    • If you do not change the reading protocol name of the selected reading protocol, you can overwrite an existing system reading protocol or a user's reading protocol.
    • If you save a reading protocol with a name that already exists in the system, Synapse creates a new reading protocol and appends a number to the reading protocol name.
    • If you select a user-owned reading protocol and you save the reading protocol with the same name, Synapse removes the user-owned reading protocol and creates a system reading protocol.
  • Manage Reading Protocols privilege:
    • If you do not change the name of the selected reading protocol name, you can overwrite your own reading protocols.
    • If you save a reading protocol with a name that already exists in the system, Synapse creates a new reading protocol and appends a number to the reading protocol name.

Prerequisites

To save reading protocols for yourself, you must have the Manage Reading Protocols privilege.

To save reading protocols to other users, you must have the Manage System Reading Protocols privilege.

Steps

  1. Click Settings to open User Settings.
  2. Select the Reading Protocols tab to display the RP Directory.
  3. Double-click a reading protocol to open the reading protocol editor.
  4. Optional: Automatically create additional steps so all the images in the study are available in reading protocol steps. Note: Available for all modalities except MG.
    1. Click the Reading Protocol Step drop-down menu located on the reading protocol editor toolbar.
    2. Select Organize Steps. A dialog box displays.
    3. Select the Automatically create steps check box.
    4. Click Update
  5. Change some, all, or none of these viewport options:

    6. If you want to do this...

    Complete these steps...

    Determine what displays in the viewport: Empty, All Images, Bookmark Images, or Series.

    Note: Synapse displays additional options when you select Series.

    From the Type drop-down list, select an option.

    Determine if a current or prior (such as P1 and P2) series displays in the selected viewport.

    From the Study Reference drop-down list, select an option.

    Change the tile format for the selected viewport.

    See Changing the Number of Images in a Viewport with Tile Format.

    From the Tile Format drop-down list, select an option.

    Apply an interactive tools, such as zoom, to all of the images in the series or to the selected image in the series.

    From the Apply Tool To drop-down list, select an option.

    Apply a selected zoom factor to a series.

    See Changing the Zoom Factor.

    From the Initial Zoom drop-down list, select an option.

    Note: You must calibrate your monitor in order for some Initial Zoom options to work. See Calibrating Monitors for True Size Image Display  

    Enable or disable text overlay information for all the series in a study.

    See Displaying and Hiding Text Overlay Information.

    From the Text Overlays drop-down list, select an option.

    Determine which index displays in the selected viewport.

    Note: The Index option is not available unless you remove the Series Contains option.

    In the Index text box, change the index number.

    Determine the step increment.

    The increment is typically the number of viewports in the reading protocol step. If you change the increment number, some series might not display using this reading protocol.

    Note: The Index / Increment option is not available unless you remove the Series Contains option. Additionally, the Increment option is not available unless the Reading Protocol step has the Automatically create steps option enabled.

    In the Increment text box, change the increment number.

  6. Click the plus sign below the last option. Synapse displays a drop-down list.
    1. Click the down arrow to display the following options.

    If you want to do this...

    Complete these steps...

    Search the series description based on the first three characters of each word in the series description as displayed in the text box or you can manually enter text.

    For example, if the series description contains the term sagittal, Synapse uses the first three letters, sag, to match other sagittal descriptions. If another series description contains the term sagittal spelled as sagital, Synapse still matches the misspelled sagital series description with this user created reading protocol.

    • Select Series Contains.
    • Add or remove characters in the series description as necessary in the Series Contains text box.

    Match against the image type in the DICOM properties of the image.

    Note: The number of Image Type Value options depends on the image.

    • Select Image Type. Synapse displays all three Image Type menu options in separate drop-down lists.
    • From the drop-down list, select the image type.
    • Optional: Click the Minus sign to remove Image Types that you do not need.

    Match against the orientation of the patient: sagittal, coronal, or transverse (axial).

    • Select Image Orientation.
    • From the drop-down list, select the image orientation.

    Match against the DICOM contrast tag.

    • Select Contrast.
    • From the drop-down list, select the contrast type.

    Apply a preset to the series. See Applying a Preset to an Image.

    • Select Image Preset.
    • From the drop-down list, select the image preset.
    1. Optional: For some DICOM properties, Synapse provides an additional option Rules Target so that the reading protocol can match different series with same DICOM properties. Do either of the following:

    If you want to do this...

    Complete these ...

    Display the same series in each viewport that matches the DICOM properties.

    • Click the Plus sign below the last option. Synapse displays a
      drop-down list .
    • Click the down arrow to display and select Rules Target.
    • Click the down arrow for Rules Target and select All Series.

    Display different series in each viewport that match the DICOM properties. If no matching series are available, Synapse displays an empty viewport.

    • Click the Plus sign below the last option. Synapse displays a drop-down list.
    • Click the down arrow to display and select Rules Target.
    • Click the down arrow for Rules Target and select Undisplayed Series.

    Note:

    The option Rules Target is only available when you select one of the following DICOM properties: Contrast, Image Type, Image Orientation, and Series Contains.

    1. Repeat until you have all the options you want.
    1. Optional: To remove an added viewport option, click the Minus sign .
  7. Optional: To specify the number of viewports that a monitor displays, click Page Layout . See Page Layout Overview for additional information.

    8. Note:

    You cannot change the monitor count from the User Settings Reading Protocol editor. You must open a reading protocol that contains the number of monitors you want.
  8. Optional: To change the match properties, click Match Properties . The Match Properties dialog box displays.

    9. If you want to do this...

    Complete these ...

    Match a study based on the modality.
    • Click Modality tab.
    • Select a modality for each study.
    • Optional: Click the plus sign to add a study or the minus sign to remove a study from the list.
    • Click Close.

    Match a study based on a procedure.
    • Click Procedure tab.
    • Select a modality for each study.
    • To select one or more procedure codes for each study, do the following:
      • Click the button in the procedure column. A dialog box displays.
      • To narrow the search, you can select RIS procedure or use the search text box.
      • Select one or more procedures in the left box and click the Arrow to move the right box.
      • Click OK when you have all the procedures you want.
    • Click Close
    • Note: You must have at least one procedure for every study.
  9. Click Save and do the following:
    1. Change the name of the reading protocol. If you do not change the reading protocol name, Synapse automatically adds your user name to the end of the reading protocol name.
    2. Click the Save to drop-down menu to select who you want to save the new reading protocol for:

      3. If you want to do this...

      Complete these steps...

      Save the reading protocol for you only.

      • Select My Reading Protocols.
      • Note: This option is available with the Manage Reading Protocols and Manage System Reading Protocols privilege.

      Save the reading protocol for all users.

      • Select System Reading Protocols.
      • Note: This option is available with the Manage System Reading Protocols privilege only.

      Save the reading protocol for specific users, roles, or combination of both.

      • Select Other Users. The Select Other User dialog box displays.
      • From the Role drop-down list, select a role or All users or type a user name in the search box.
      • Select the role or user name from the left list.
      • Click the arrow to add the role or user name to the selected right list.
      • Note: This option is only available with the Manage System Reading Protocols privilege.
    3. Click OK.

Results

Synapse saves the new reading protocol to yourself, other users, or roles depending on your privileges.

Additional Options

Right-click the selected reading protocol and select Open RP Editor from the context menu.

Related Topics

Using the Reading Protocol Editor From User Settings for MG Stacking

Using the Reading Protocol Editor From Viewer

 

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