Using the Reading Protocol Editor From Viewer

Introduction

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

When you access the reading protocol editor from Viewer, the available list of DICOM options depends on the series modality and your selection of the following options:

  • Image Type
  • Series Contains
  • Contrast
  • Image Orientation
  • Image Preset

Steps

  1. Select Edit Reading Protocol from either location:

Location

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From the Viewer.

Select Edit Reading Protocol from the Reading Protocol Selection Drop-Down menu. See Viewer Toolbar Features.

From the Save Reading Protocol dialog box (located in the Reading Protocol Selection Drop-Down menu).

Select Edit Reading Protocol.
  1. 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.
    • Click the Reading Protocol Step drop-down menu located on the reading protocol editor toolbar. See Reading Protocol Editor Toolbar.
    • Select Organize Steps. A dialog box displays.
    • Select the Automatically create steps check box.
    • Click Update.
  1. Change some, all, or none of these viewport options:

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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.

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

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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:

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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.
  • The default for Rules Target is Undisplayed Series.
  1. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you have all the options you want.
  2. Optional: to remove an added viewport option, click the Minus sign .
  3. Do one of the following:

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Review your changes in the Viewer before saving the reading protocol.

  • Click Preview to review the changes.

  • In the Reading Protocol Selection drop-down menu, select Save Reading Protocol.

Save the reading protocol.

Return to the Viewer without saving the reading protocol changes.

  • In the reading protocol toolbar, click Close to return to the Viewer.

Related Topics

Reading Protocol Editor Toolbar

Organizing Reading Protocol Steps

 

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