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HowTo Display Images

After you have retrieve/select the study, you can display it with a simple double click on the query form.

If there are previous studies stored on the local archive they are simultaneously display with the current one. If you want to query if there are some other studies stored on the Archive System you can easy click on button: then a form show you the list of the remote stored studies and if you select them and click on get the workstation retrieve them.

Arrange images

As default OpenEye shows one series on one display, if the series contains more than one image the monitor is split in an image grid 2x2. We are working to implement hanging protocols.

To navigate in the study you can use the next/previous buttons  or rearrange the series using the contextual menu clicking the right button of the mouse.

This is the contextual menu in which you can select the series to display on the monitor where you have click the right button of the mouse. If there are locally stored previous examination you see them. You can display different studies of the same patient or also from different patients (very useful if there is a mistake in the patient identification - PatientID).

You can change the default monitor grid selecting Grid from the contextual menu or using the buttons in the toolbar.

Another way to rearrange the series is the use of the Navigation button.

Simply image modification

OpenEye is developed thinking to the real world radiological work: this means that we use the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!) approach to develop the GUI. When a radiologist works on the workstation uses mouse (normally with right hand), keyboard (normally with left hand), looks at the images (he don't have to look at the keyboard!), and optionally dictates the report using a microphone. So all the main functions are activated in the classic way (clicking with the mouse cursor over a toolbar) but also with keyboard shortcut (in the left part of the keyboard).

These are the main functionality:

• zoom (ctrl + mouse left button)

• pan (ctrl + mouse right button)

  you can also use the zomm/pan buttons

• luminosity (shift + mouse left button)

• contrast (shift + mouse right button)

  you can use also the window level buttons

• density (key P)

• line measurement (key L)

• area measurement (key A)

• Text overlay (key T)

  you can use also the overlay buttons
  

It is also possible to change the window level using the contextual menu to select user default setting (bone chest, etc) or the acquisition modality settings.

 If you want to rotate or flip the image you can use the toolbar buttons

To reset all the image modifications you can click on 

Advance Image modification for CT/MR

OpenEye is developed thinking that volumetric modality such as MDTC and MR have to be reported using an integrated 3D tool. Today most of the radiological workstation has the capabilities to perform MPR/MIP/VRT/DSS processing but not completely integrated in reporting workflow: for example is very difficult to find the possibility to display two different CT series on the displays performing a MPR reconstruction synchronizing the two series or performing the same oblique plan on the two series.

This is the OpenEye developing direction: a simple workstation with the necessaries tools (2D or 3D) for radiological reporting.

If you want to synchronize the series you can click on the button on the toolbar . At today you can only use automatic (we are working on manual synchronization).

 If you click on the button on the images you enter in 3D reconstruction. At now we have implemented only MPR with orthogonal and oblique plans. To set an oblique plan you simply click the shift button and drag the plan pressing the right  button of the mouse. You can see below the result.

Two important feature are implemented in this MPR view: the first is that the reconstructed images of differents series are synchronized and the second is that when you draw an oblique plan OpenEye calculated at the same on the two different series displayed. Also oblique plan images are synchronized.