To view and analyze images, use the Image area tools.
The Image area provides mammography-specific functionality.
The Diagnostic Desktop combines the features of a RIS, PACS, and reporting program into a seamless, single program for medical imaging departments.
Review new features for this desktop.
The Diagnostic Desktop is a single point of entry for all information, image viewing, and speech recognition features related to medical imaging.
Learn the basic concepts of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
Complete your work with tasks, optimize your workflow, and communicate with others who work on tasks.
You can consult studies and compare them to the active ones.
Order information provides procedural details relating to images being taken.
You can print selected procedures as well as the study label with a barcode.
View, modify, and switch procedure plans.
Use attachments to collect and communicate additional information about the patient, study, order, report, or procedure.
Learn how to consult patient data, and work with reports to create your diagnosis.
The Image area combines all image display, manipulation, and enhancement tools for reading in Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
Calibration refers to how image information is translated from on-screen pixels to real-world measurements. You can calibrate images with the calibration line and the calibration circle tool.
Study images can be displayed with or without patient demographics.
A hanging protocol is a logical set of instructions for displaying the images in a study. Hanging protocols contain one or more presentation groups, and each presentation group contains one or more viewports.
Information about study images, such as patient demographics, CAD SR markers, and image type, can be viewed in the Image area.
An image snapshot stores the state of images in the Image area and allows you to return the Image area to the same state later.
XA images can contain overlays that can be configured to be shown or hidden.
Key images identify the most clinically relevant images in a series.
Use keyboard shortcuts or Image area tools to access the mammography image review features.
Mammography images are initially displayed for optimal viewing.
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), also known as 3D mammography, is an advanced imaging technology for cancer screening and detection.
You cannot print mammography images with advanced layout and viewport rendering options (for example, chestwall alignment, scale to fit, and so on) that are applied through a hanging protocol.
Unlock paired panning to pan a single image, when paired panning is active.
You can view mammography images that have CAD information, whose marker format follows the standards of the DICOM Conformance Statement (Mammography CAD SR SOP class 1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.88.50).
The quadrant keyboard shortcut zooms a mammography image to 1:1 and automatically pans to each quadrant of the image.
Image area Markup tools calibrate images, take measurements, and highlight and annotate areas with arrows or text. You can also hide, modify, or delete markups.
You have many options for navigating through the images in a study.
Adjust the position and the magnification factor of images.
You can adjust study images that are not correctly oriented by applying the appropriate Rotation or Flip tool.
Volume rendering visualizes 2D slice images as a 3D volume. Tools—including free rotation, color-coded enhancement of intensities, and clipping plane sliders—provide advanced decision-making support.
The 3D sync tool provides 3D synchronization of two or more series without changing the layout or applying a new hanging protocol. 3D synchronization aligns multiple series in one space.
The Image area volume segmentation tools allow you to define structures that have to be measured, as well as to define structures to be hidden or to visually enhance specific parts within a volume.
CPR reconstructs curved planes defined by a longitudinal axis. MPR reconstructs axial, coronal, sagittal, or oblique views from slices in any of these planes.
Multi 3D series consist of slice image data acquired at multiple points over time. You can scroll through or automatically play back multi 3D series.
Comparison studies contain prior imaging to provide a full patient history.
Enterprise Imaging includes functionality that enables you to adjust the brightness and contrast of an image for diagnostic viewing or to better visualize images by applying a color schema.
Three Standard uptake values (SUV) calculation methods are available for PT images: body weight (SUVbw), body surface area (SUVbsa), and lean body mass (SUVlbm).
With specific color lookup tables stored as window level presets, you can highlight certain features of a grayscale NM/PET study. You can further adjust the display with the nuclear medicine color bar.
To split a series that contains multiple phases into several series that each contain one phase, use the Split series tool.
A presentation state is a set of display attributes that you apply to an image. You can save and load presentation states.
The integration of IMAGE-COM, a cardiology study viewer powered by TOMTEC Imaging Systems, into Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging extends the functionality of the Image area with additional analytical tools and features.
You can view chest CT studies, including vessel suppressed images and details on detected lung nodules, from ClearRead CT. The details can include image overlays (presentation states), summary series, or report series.
You can view X-ray studies processed by ClearRead Xray. The views displayed include bone suppressed, enhanced, and comparison images.
You can view chest radiography studies processed by Lunit INSIGHT CXR.
You can view mammography studies processed by Lunit INSIGHT MMG.
Improve the contrast and detail in CR/DR images through MUSICA settings. MUSICA is an enhanced processing algorithm.
Peer learning workflows and teaching files can be used within Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging.
Review scheduled procedures and conference sessions in the Calendar.
You can keep track of the total amount of radiation a patient has received.
Quality control is a process of aligning the data about patients with their images, which come from different sources. Quality control is an automatic step in the unverified study workflow, but it can also be performed manually.
You can access and use third-party applications that are integrated with Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging from client desktops.
To find studies, use either the simple or the advanced search interface.
Define Collaborator, list, and search options at the user, desktop, or system level.
In Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging, sets of access-controlled features are combined into permission sets. One or more permission sets are included security roles. Security roles are assigned to users.
Use system log files supplied with Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging for basic troubleshooting.
Use the keyboard shortcuts for quick access to your everyday tasks.
Your administrator might ask you to communicate the bandwidth and latency values to optimize the configuration for your workstation in Administrator desktop.
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