Viewer Toolbar Features

This feature 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.

Launches your default Worklist.

See Creating Your Default Worklist View.

Use the Study Search feature on the Viewer toolbar to easily search a study for interruption workflow, whether you are using a PACS (Worklist) or RIS (web query) workflow.

See Using Study Search.

Launches Clinical Reporting Application (CRA) and opens a report.

See Opening Clinical Reporting Application from the Viewer.

Note: Send Message to Dictation System and Sign Report do not display when the CRA icon displays.

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

• 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 and Viewer Dictation Notifications.

Marks the open study as dictated and displays the next unread study or returns to the Workflow list, depending on the Workflow Settings.

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

Right-click the Sign Report button to display the following radio buttons:

• Automatically display next unread study
• Go back to worklist

These options temporarily override the button behavior configured in the Workflow settings.

Note: In certain contexts, such as URL launch or launch from search results, the Workflow settings are not honored, since there is no worklist to return to.

Skips an open study without marking it as dictated and displays the next unread study or returns to the Workflow list, depending on the Workflow Settings.

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

Right-click the Skip Study button to display the following radio buttons:

• Automatically display next unread study
• Go back to worklist

These options temporarily override the button behavior configured in the Workflow settings. See Configuring Workflow Settings.

Note: In certain contexts, such as URL launch or launch from search results, the Workflow settings are not honored, since there is no worklist to return to.

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 SR/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 RP Step Creation .

• Click the left arrow to move to the previous step.
• Click the right arrow to move to the next step.
• Additional step options available on the context menu of an image: Layout Navigation.
• Keyboard shortcut (ALT + X) to return to the 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 that display on a monitor.

See Page Layout Overview.

Click to open the Protocol Panel. Subsequent clicks hide and display the Protocol Panel.

See Using Protocol Panel.

• 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.

• Use the 8 shortcut to find the next image in the series containing AI results.

  • Use the 6 shortcut key to turn on all of the AI findings. Press the 6 key twice to turn off AI findings.

• Use the 7 shortcut key on the keyboard to toggle through the AI findings within an image, one at a time.

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.

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