Viewer Toolbar Features

Addresses the issue of workflow interruption and provides a means by which you can easily return to a study after searching for and opening another study. Use the toolbar buttons for a quick way back to the last study you looked at and easy navigation to every study that you have looked at during your current session.

See Return to the Last Study using Time Warp.

Displays a list of your recently viewed studies.

See Return to the Last Study using Time Warp.

Opens the All Studies Worklist in the Worklist. Use the QBE fields to find another patient.

See Advanced Query by Example Overview.

Manually notifies the dictation system. Use the manual notification option when:

• You have not selected the Dictation Notification option on the Workflow settings page.

Note: You must have the Synapse Desktop Agent installed.

See Configuring the Desktop Agent.

• Marks the open dictated study and returns to worklist.
• Marks the open dictated study and displays the next unread study in the Viewer.

Note: The initial display of these icons in the Viewer depends on the Workflow > Mark Study Dictated (F8) setting. See Configuring Workflow Settings.

The F8 button can be toggled between the two settings, temporarily altering the behavior for the current user session. See Automated Workflow Overview.

• Skips the open study without marking dictated and returns to the worklist.
• Skips the open study without marking dictated and displays the next unread study in the Viewer.

Note: The display of these icons in the Viewer depends on the Workflow > Skip Study (F9) setting. See Configuring Workflow Settings.

The F9 button can be toggled between the two settings, temporarily altering the behavior for the current user session. See Automated Workflow Overview.

Displays a list of configured URL icons that supports up to 10 URL icons. See your System Administrator for more information about configuring the URL icons.

Note: For VNA studies use the Study Instance UID. If you use the Study ID, a VNA study does not contain information for a Study ID and returns a zero.

Opens and closes the Report window in the Viewer.

See Viewing Reports in the Viewer.

Opens PowerJacket in a separate window.

See Choosing PowerJacket Settings.

Opens and closes the DICOM SR/PDF Viewer.

See Using the DICOM Structured Report or PDF Viewer or Opening a Breast Density Report.

Provides a list of available reading protocols for the open study or studies.

See Reading Protocol Overview.

Note: If there are more than 100 reading protocols matching the current study or layout, Synapse displays only the first 100 reading protocols in the Reading Protocols drop-down list.

Shows the available steps for the open study or studies.

See Automatic Reading Protocol Step Creation.

• Left arrow moves to the previous step.
• Right arrow moves to the next step.
• Additional step options available on the image context menu: Layout Navigation.
• Keyboard shortcut (ALT + X) to return to first step.

• Displays the previous comparison study or group of comparison studies.
• Displays the next comparison study or group of comparison studies.

See Viewing Comparison Studies.

Specifies the number of viewports displayed on a monitor.

See Page Layout Overview.

• Left-click the Snapshot icon to save a new Snapshot. Synapse automatically saves the Snapshot name using the date and time.
• Right-click the Snapshot icon to open the Save Snapshot dialog box. You can name the Snapshot and save the Snapshot in a Collections folder.
  • Click the Snapshot name and select the Initial State option to revert the study to its original state.
• Click the Snapshot name to view a list of the current Snapshots. You can edit a Snapshot's name or delete a Snapshot from the study. All changes to a Snapshot automatically synchronize in the Worklist and PowerJacket.

See Saving Snapshots.

Indicates that you are using the initial display state of an image.

Click to display a list of available Snapshots.

Synapse Chat provides the ability for Synapse users to communicate with one another within the Synapse application.

• Click the Synapse Chat icon from your preferred location in the Worklist, PowerJacket, or Viewer.

See Synapse Chat Overview .

Opens/closes the AI Feedback dialog box.

• Click the AI Feedback icon.

Note: See your System Administrator for the AI Feedback listing.

See Using the Synapse AI Feedback Form.

Displays AI Findings by category.

The AI Category Filter default state is All Findings with the up and down arrows grayed out.

• To view the series AI findings, do one of the following:
  • Click the AI Category Filter icon to view the first available category and click again to view the next available category. This will cycle back to ALL when you reach the last category.
  • Use the 8 shortcut key to find the next image in the series or the next series containing AI results.
  • Use the 7 shortcut key on the keyboard to toggle through the series AI findings within an image, one at a time.
  • Use the 6 shortcut key to turn on the AI findings display. Press the 6 key twice to turn off AI findings.

See Using the Synapse AI Category Filter.

Click the arrow to display the drop-down list and select one of the following options:

• Settings
• Mouse Move Sensitivity
• Optimize Network Usage
• Sync During Scroll
• Synapse Help (Users Guide)
• About Synapse