Using Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite

Introduction

You can launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite from nuclear medicine images in the Viewer for the current study.

Prerequisites

To use Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite, you must comply with the following prerequisites:

  • Have Synapse Desktop Agent installed on your workstation.
  • Have a licensed version of Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite software installed and configured on your workstation.

Note:
  • The context menu option for launching Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite is only available when the integration plugin is active in Desktop Agent for configured procedures.
  • To automatically launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite from the Viewer, the Workflow > Nuclear Quantification setting must be selected. See Configuring Workflow Settings.
  • If you change the Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite settings from active to inactive, either refresh the browser or the Viewer.

Steps

  1. Open a nuclear medicine study with configured images from the Worklist.
  2. Select one of the following options for launching Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite.

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    Complete these steps

    Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite from the Icon menu for the current study.

    Right-click an image and select the Clinical Applications > Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite icon.

    Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite from the List context menu for the current study.

    Right-click an image and select Clinical Applications > Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite.

    Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite from the Series Picker context menu for the current study.

    Right-click one of the selected thumbnails and select Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite.

    Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite from the Anywhere Series Picker context menu for the current study.

    Right-click a thumbnail and select Launch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite.

    Synapse displays a progress message while it is sending images to Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite and launching the application.

  3. Use Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite to complete an advanced quantification and analysis, and then process and save those changes to the Results XML file, which is then uploaded to Synapse.

    4. Note:

    Synapse displays a message if the file upload fails and attempts to resend the file. If any file uploads fail, the data and images files are copied to a 3rdpartyuploads directory in their respective Data or Images subdirectories. Synapse deletes files that are more than one day old and no further attempts to upload occur.

  4. Do one of the following:

    • In the Viewer, click Arrival Notification and then click Refresh to add the Results thumbnail to the Series Picker and Anywhere Series Picker.
    • In the AR Report, view changes made to the report.

  5. Optional: Relaunch Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite from the Results thumbnail.

Results

For Advanced Reporting (AR) studies, when the export of the Results file is complete, the measurements data automatically populates the AR Report.

When Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite is relaunched for a previously saved study, Synapse sends the complete study and the results file to Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite for further analysis.

Note:

When additional images are acquired after the third party result file is generated, you must manually import these images in the third party application. For additional information, refer to the third party application documentation.

Additional Information

For detailed information about how to use Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite, refer to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center website.

Related Topics

Cedars-Sinai Cardiac Suite Overview