MIPACS Dental Enterprise Viewer Training

Logging Into MIPACS Discussion: Log-in format

Changing Your Password Discussion: If the password is blank they must change it

Querying For Patients Discussion: Do not enter SSN with dashes / SSN Mask Easiest to search by patient id Asterisk is the wild card character

Querying for Patients cont.

Creating a New Patient Explanation of when to create a new patient. What happens if you try to create a patient that already exist

Series View

How To Take A Digital Image

Selecting a Template Definition of a Template

Activating a Plug-in Definition of a plug-in

Plug-in Buttons Kodak Plug-in Planmeca Plug-in Schick Plug-in Scan-x Plug-in USB Camera Plug-in

Approve and Store Differences between saving and save and approve. Explanation of the Dicom Storage Server and differences from local db. Explanation of what happens when a tech or student tries to approve an image.

Additional Information About Templates

Overflow Area Explanation of uses for the Overflow area. Explanation that Overflow images are saved to the server as well. When the Overflow area can be manipulated.

Remounting A Series

Saving a PA

Image Enhancement Tools

Rotate Image 90° This tool is used to rotate the image 90º at a time. To apply this effect, select the image to be rotated and press the Rotate 90º button. Press the button multiple times to continue to rotate it 180º or 270º.

Brightness and Contrast Explanation of Overflow controls and Brightness Contrast Controls. Brightness/Contrast – Click this button to display the Brightness/Contrast control box. Clicking and holding the mouse on the pink dot in control box will adjust the brightness and contrast. In addition, a more common method of adjusting the brightness and contrast is by just holding down the left mouse button while dragging the mouse across the image.

Invert Image Invert Image – Click this button to invert the color scale on the image. When this effect is applied, black will appear as white and white will appear as black.

Stretch Histogram Stretch Histogram – Click this button to display the Histogram dialog box. You can adjust the image displayed by dragging the red borders of the square on the histogram or by right-clicking the histogram and choosing an “Auto-level” option.

Optimize Brightness The Optimize Brightness tool changes the brightness setting to be optimal for a selected area of the image. To use this tool, select an image and click the Optimize Brightness button. Click and hold on the part of the image for which you want the brightness of the image to be optimized to. Drag away from the point selected to select a circular area of the image (you will see the outline of a circle) and let up on the mouse button. Click in the center of the circle you created

Equalization The equalization tool is used to make diagnosing easier. To use this tool, click on the Equalization button. Move the mouse over an image and a circular section will be affected as you move the mouse. To disable, click the image

Colorize Explanation of the ability to see more shades of color then grey.

Noise Reduction Filter

Edge Enhance Warning message on misusing the edge enhancer. The Edge Enhancement tool reduces blurry edges to crisp, sharp edges. To use this tool, click on an image click the arrow beside the Edge Enhancement button to select the amount of sharpness.

Undo / Redo

Magnifier

Zoom

Ruler Explanation of the ruler needing to be calibrated.

Multi-Line Ruler

Protractor

Annotations Explanation of separate layer of annotations and how it can be taken off the images and put back on.

Derived Series Definition of Derived Series. What images get saved under a derived series.

Image Comparisons

Presentation Mode

Comparing Two Series

Three Administrative Tasks

Exporting Images

Exporting Images cont.

Importing Images (DICOM)

Importing Images (Non-DICOM)

Printing

Check List Logging into MIPACS Changing Your Password How To Query for existing patients How to create a New Patient What is a Series How to Select a Template

Check List cont. How to Activate a Plug-in How to Save and Save and Approve How to use Image Enhancements How to compare Images Importing and Exporting Images How to Print Images