User manual PLANMECA DIMAXIS PRO VERSION 2

[. . . ] Dimaxis Pro USER'S MANUAL Publication part number 10006120 Version 2 Published 2002-06 En TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 1 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 1. 5 1. 6 1. 7 1. 8 1. 9 1. 10 1. 11 1. 12 1. 13 1. 14 1. 15 Brief Introduction to Digital Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Securing the Image Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] In the Other Properties group you can select or deselect support for print jobs, or define that only 8 bit images will be printed. In this case the images will be mapped to 8 bits before they are sent to the printer. NOTE See the printer's DICOM Conformance Statement for information about the printer's capabilities. 56 Dimaxis User's Manual DICOM PRINT The DICOM Printer Info window appears when you click the Status button in the DICOM Print window. User's Manual Dimaxis 57 DICOM STORAGE 8 DICOM STORAGE The DICOM Storage button is located on the upper toolbar. You can send the selected image to a remote DICOM application by clicking this button or selecting the DICOM Storage command from the DICOM pulldown menu. DICOM Storage button The Send Image to DICOM AE window appears. Fill in the DICOM specific fields: Study ID etc. if the receiving application requires them. Click OK. If sending the image failed, the message window shown below appears. Check that the receiving DICOM application is up and running and that the network is working properly. If this still does not succeed, open the Log file by clicking the Log File button in the Send Image to DICOM AE window, print the file and fax or send it to your local support. After the image has been successfully sent the message window shown below appears. 58 Dimaxis User's Manual DICOM STORAGE You can select the target DICOM application by clicking the Select button. The Select Remote DICOM AE window appears. Select the application and click OK. The DICOM Storage Setup window appears when you click the Setup button. For more information refer to section 10. 3. 1 "Applications" on page 119. User's Manual Dimaxis 59 PULLDOWN MENUS 9 PULLDOWN MENUS NOTE From the pulldown menus it is possible to activate all the different functions of the program. The buttons on the toolbars are available only for the central functions of the program. NOTE The pulldown menus are different according to whether images are open or not. NOTE If there are three dots after a command in the pulldown menu or in the opened dialog window, it means that by clicking the command there will be more options to choose from. If the command in the pulldown menu or in the dialog window is without the three dots, there will be no more options. 9. 1 Patient Pulldown Menu The Patient pulldown menu is visible when there are no images open. New patient, see chapter 2. 2 "Selecting Patient" on page 6. Select a patient, see chapter 4. 1 "Selecting Patient" on page 13. Deselect a patient Patient statistics Modify or remove patient information Change the patient number Quit Dimaxis Pro Deselect When you have finished working with the images of one patient, and you do not want to close Dimaxis Pro, you can deselect the patient by choosing the Deselect command from the Patient pulldown menu. 60 Dimaxis User's Manual PULLDOWN MENUS Statistics Select the Statistics command from the Patient pulldown menu to see the patient statistics. Modify or Remove Select the Modify or Remove command from the Patient pulldown menu to modify the information of the selected patient, or to delete all the patient information. User's Manual Dimaxis 61 PULLDOWN MENUS If you have modified the information of the selected patient in the Modify or Remove window and you click the Modify button, the message window shown below appears. To accept the modification click Yes, or cancel the action by clicking No. If you click Yes, the message window shown below appears. 62 Dimaxis User's Manual PULLDOWN MENUS If you have modified or removed the information of the selected patient in the Modify or Remove window and you click the Cancel button to cancel the modification, the message window shown below appears. To ignore the changes click Yes, or accept the changes by clicking No. NOTE If you want to delete an image, but not all the information of the patient, select the Delete command from the Image pulldown menu, see section 9. 8 "Image Pulldown Menu (Image(s) Open)" on page 77. When you click the Remove button in the Modify or Remove window, the message window shown below appears. To accept the removal click Yes, or cancel the action by clicking No. User's Manual Dimaxis 63 PULLDOWN MENUS NOTE If the patient has any images in the image archive, these images will be deleted as well. In this case the message window shown below appears. [. . . ] If you wish to re-assign the placeholder back to its default series, first select the default series for the placeholder from the list (i. e. select Panoramic for a panoramic placeholder) and then click the placeholder. To add a new series click the New button. Fill in the series number and description and click OK. Note that numbers 0-9 are reserved for the default series and cannot be used. To modify a series description select the desired series and click the Modify button. [. . . ]