IMPAX 6.5.1 Client Knowledge Base: Extended > Reading studies
In the Image area, you can manipulate studies, series, and images for a patient.
An image is a single frame taken by a modality. Certain modalities, such as a CT, MRI, or PET, take consecutive sets of images called series. One study can consist of several series. Studies are combinations of series or images for a single patient. Images in a study are usually from a single modality, but can also be from multiple modalities.
Two main features affect how studies, series, and images are displayed on-screen and how you can manipulate them: screen layout and scope.
Screen layout
Three main IMPAX screen layout options work together to define how images, series, and studies are arranged on the available Image area monitors: screen format, study view mode, and series view mode. Refer to Screen layout options: How they interact.
Scope
Scope refers to whether a tool action is applied to a single image, to all images in a series, or to all images in a study. Certain tools have a default scope. To set the default scope for the window level, magnify, and cine tools, use the Screen Layout tab of the Customize dialog. For other tools, the default scope is image. Refer to Setting the scope of tool applications.
See also
Defining default scope for window level, magnify, and cine
Screen layout options: How they interact
Topic number: 8400 Applies to: IMPAX 6.5.1 Client Knowledge Base |