MOSAIQ User's Guide - UCSF Radiation Oncology

CHAPTER 7: Image Management-ViewStation & Photos and Diagrams
Using the Photos and Diagrams Utility
You can acquire and display digital photos and diagrams as part of the electronic chart,
using a digital camera or any of the wide variety of industry-standard devices to capture
images that you can enter into the system. The Photos and Diagrams utility does not
interface directly with image sources such as digital cameras.
CAUTION
The camera or scanner you use must be able to save images to disk in
JPEG, PCX, BMP, or TIFF format. TIFF compatibility is limited, so we do
not recommend devices that only support TIFF format. JPEG works best
in most situations.
We recommend that you set the camera resolution to the lowest
resolution available (640x480 recommended). We also
recommend that you use the compressed JPEG image format to
keep the file sizes to a minimum. JPEG compression is variable
and some camera settings can have different levels of control.
Test different settings to find the optimal configuration for your
facility.
After importing the images, you must associate them with a treatment field or prescription
site before you can use the images in the treatment set-up process.
Importing Images Using Photos and Diagrams
1. Scan or create using a scanner or digital camera, then save those images to the
appropriate directory.
2. Click File | Import/Export, then click Photos and Diagrams Import… to open the
Photos and Diagrams Import dialog box.
The Photos and Diagrams Import dialog box shows all the images in the specified
directory. For this reason, you can work on multiple images at one time. For example, if
you have five images for one patient and six images for another patient, you can process
the five images for the first patient, then process the six images for the second patient, all
without leaving the Photos and Diagrams Import dialog box.
3. If the Directory field does not show the correct path to the directory with the images,
click , select the appropriate directory, then click OK.
4. In the Mark All as group, click Import if you wish to import all of the images. This
changes the status indicators to green.
5. In the Mark All as group, click Delete if you wish to remove all of the images. This
changes the status indicators to red.
6. If all the images are the same type, click adjacent to Image Type Selector field (located
below the buttons) in the Mark All as group, then click the image type.
7. In the Mark All as group, click Ignore if you wish to ignore all of the images. This
changes the status indicators to yellow.
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