Text Overlay Data Overview
Introduction
You can enable or disable text overlay information through the context menu or User Settings. Use User Settings to enable or disable text overlay automatically when you open a study. To manually change text overlays for a study, use the context menu or the associated keyboard shortcut.
Default Text Overlays
The default text overlay information includes Patient Name, Patient DOB, Patient Age, Page Number, and Image Identification displayed on the top and bottom of an image or series.
The age displayed is the age of the patient at the time of the study, and is in the following format:
- if less than 3 months, age shown in days
- if between 3 months and 3 years, age shown in months
- if between 3 years and 18 years, age shown in years and months using the form aY bM (where a is years, b is months)
- if older than 18 years, age shown in years
Properties such as page number, image number, and series number always display.
Synapse always displays the highest quality image available. If you display the original image, Synapse does not display the compression ratio in the text overlay. Otherwise, Synapse displays the compression ratios provided by the modality.
Mammography
For Mammography (MG) series, text overlay information displays on the anterior side of the anatomy opposite the chest wall, to avoid potential superimposition of text over the image.
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Default text overlays can vary depending on the displayed modality. Examples of text overlay information are as follows:
- Patient Name
- Page Number
- Procedure Description
- Series Description
- Study Date / Time
- Medical Record Number (MRN)
For Mammography studies, the page number and study date / time are displayed in a larger Font size.
Text overlays for 2D images related to Breast Tomosynthesis studies will have the following information appended to the laterality/view code displayed in the overlay to identify whether the image is synthetic and the corresponding Tomosynthesis series:
- [S](Tn) for synthetic images
- (Tn) for non-synthetic images
For example: RCC [S](T1)
This appended information is also displayed in the enhanced labeling for the image thumbnails. See Labeling for Mammography (MG) Thumbnails.
Text overlays for 3D view can also vary. Some examples of text overlays for 3D view are as follows:
- Window Level
- Slice Number
- Study Date / Time
- Scale Marker
Options for Configuring Text Overlays
You can configure text overlays in the following ways:
- Open User Settings to configure whether to display text overlays automatically when you open a study.
- Use the context menu to hide or show the text overlay for current and prior studies within the Viewer.
- Select what patient information to hide when you anonymize a study. See Creating Custom Anonymous List Items.
- Change the color and size of the text overlays. See Customizing Font Colors and Size.
- Disable dash notation (---) in an overlay to mark fields where values are missing, substituting empty spaces instead. The dash notation is the default. To change to empty spaces, see your System Administrator.
Related Topics
Configuring Text Overlay Settings
Hiding Patient Identification Information Overview
Customizing Font Colors and Size