DICOM Viewer Help

To display an image of CD, PC that meets the following requirements is needed.

After turning on the computer, insert the CD into the drive. The DICOM Viewer is automatically shown on the screen.
Once the DICOM Viewer starts, the Viewer window appears and displays images of the first series.
The size of the Viewer window is fixed, and cannot be adjusted.

To display an image, click the series on the tree view. All of the images included in the series are loaded and displayed. Since the image data for the examination file of studies for one patient is recorded on a storage media, one patient node is displayed on tree view.

From the menu bar, click [File] and then choose [Open DICOM file] to display the Open dialog box.

Select a file and click the [Open] button to view that image in the viewer. You can select multiple images by holding down the [Ctrl] key while clicking. Then, click the [Open] button to display the multiple selected images in the viewer.
Also, to display the image that falls within the overlap between two selected images, hold the [Shift] key while selecting two image files and then click the [Open] button.

If the number of images loaded is greater than the number that can be displayed on the viewer, you can scroll the images to view those that are not displayed.
Use the scroll bar on the right edge of the Viewer window to scroll through the images. You can click either the and buttons, or drag the slider. One click of the and buttons scrolls the display by one image. You can also use the mouse wheel to scroll through the images.

The layout of the information displayed at the top of an image is shown below.

Orientation markers indicate directions of displayed images.

Directions and indicated characters are as follows.

An example of Image direction is shown below.

Scaler indicates a reduced scale of an displayed image
Expansion and reduction of an image changes it. (See to 10 Setting magnification and reduction.)

Click [Display] and then choose [Window Width/Level] on the menu bar, or click the icon . You can use the left button on the mouse and drag to adjust window width and level.
In this situation, the checkmark () appears next to [Display] - [Window Width/Level] on the menu bar, and the icon is selected.

Click [Display] and then chose [Zoom] on the menu bar, or click the icon . You can use the left button on the mouse and drag to magnify and reduce an image.
In this situation, the checkmark () appears next to [Display] - [Zoom] on the menu bar, and the icon is selected.

Click [Display] and then chose [Pan] on the menu bar, or click the icon . You can use the left button on the mouse and drag to move an image.
In this situation, the checkmark () appears next to [Display] - [Zoom] on the menu bar, and the icon is selected.

When clicking [Display] and then choose [Reset] on the menu bar or clicking icon , the window width and level, magnification/reduction, and image position settings for all images are returned to their original settings when they were first loaded.

When clicking [Display] and then [Select All] on the menu bar or clicking the icon , all window width/level settings, magnification and reduction setting and image movement setting performed for a single image will be applied to all images.

You can select from four types of display layout: 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4.
From the [Display] menu on the menu bar, choose [Layout] and then click either [1x1], [2x2], [3x3] or [4x4]. Or, click icon , , or .

When the gray scale image is displayed, you can select two types display : normal and pseudo-color.
Click icon .

From the [Help] menu on the menu bar , choose [Version] to display the version information.
Chose the [View the End-User License Agreement Help] on the version information to display The License Agreement for the DICOM Viewer.

From the [Help] menu on the menu bar , choose [Manual] to display the usage manual of this DICOM Viewer.

You can choose [File] on the menu bar and then [Quit] to exit the viewer.

The DICOM Viewer does not include functions for printing images or outputting image data.
To print images or save data, display the image you want to copy on the window, and then press either the [Print Screen] button (to copy all windows) or the [Alt] and [Print Screen] buttons (to copy the active window) on the keyboard. ([Alt] and [Print Screen] means to press the [Alt] and [Print Screen] buttons simultaneously.) The images captured on the window are copied to the clipboard. From there, they can be transferred to Paint or a similar image-processing program.

The following table describes the causes and solutions for error messages.