Viewing Ultrasound Images as Virtual Series

Introduction

Synapse creates a virtual series by grouping multiframe ultrasound images that have the same View and Stage Number DICOM tags into a single series. Virtual series display in the Series Picker and in Anywhere Series Picker.

The multiframe viewport provides the following visual indicator for the ultrasound virtual series, located at the upper-right corner of the Viewport.

• Click the pin icon for any image that you want to pin within the virtual series.
  • You can pin one image at a time; the pinned image persists within the virtual series.
  • The pinned image automatically displays when the series loads.
• The image count is followed by image navigation arrows that you can use to move forward and backward through the virtual images.
• Synapse orders the images within the virtual series in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest), based on the image acquisition timestamp.

When viewing a virtual series, you can change the displayed image within the virtual series, using the image navigation arrow to go to the next or previous image. For example, cine and scroll are constrained to the current image in the virtual series. Click the image navigation arrows as needed to move to the next or previous image.

Note:

Window level, zoom, pan, sharpness, and other image modifications persist for each image. (In other words, when you navigate away from that image and then back, you will still see the changes that you made.) Image modifications do not affect the other images in the virtual series. If you enable the Disable Thumbnail Series Description setting for a modality, the series description does not display in the Series Picker toolbar or the Anywhere Series Picker for that modality. This includes virtual series, bookmarks, and All Images. See Configuring Series Settings.

When viewing a virtual series, the multiframe viewport:

• Adheres to the current image's frame rate. This means that each image can maintain its own frame rate.

Stress Echo Ultrasound Series Names

Ultrasound series names are based on the following four DICOM tags associated with the series:

• Stage name
• Stage number
• View name
• View number

Synapse names the series based on the available DICOM tags:

• If stage name and view name are present, the series is named stage name - view name.
• If stage name is present but view name is not present, the series is named stage name - view number.
• If the stage name is not present, the series is named view name.
• If none of the above are present, the series is named series description - series number.
• If no series description is present, the series is named series number - image number.