Splitting studies


 

To split a single study, go to the Quick View page and click on the Split button. The split study page consists of three sections. The top section is the control area identifying the new groupings. The second section displays all the images in the study. The last section displays an icon for each report object (main report, addendum, private report file) in the study. 

 

  1. Start by determining the image's reference number.  It is reported in the header for each series, or place the mouse over the image or report and it will pop up. 

  2. In the control section, select Series or Image from the pull-down list, enter the starting and ending Series/Image number and a new accession number. 

  3. The existing reports are copied into all new studies with the Copy Reports box checked.  If you want to remove the existing reports, click the Delete Unassigned Reports box.  

  4. Click the Apply button

  5. Group are color coded. All series, images and reports assigned to the same accession number will be put onto the same study. If you skipped any images, you will have to change the assignments to include them in one of the new studies.

  6. When all the image and report objects are assigned to a new group, the Split button becomes active. Click this button to complete the separation. It may be necessary at this point to modify the patient demographic information by using the edit function.

To remove images completely, split them into their own study, and then delete the new study when finished.

 

Studies retrieved from third party archives and imported from DICOM media cannot be split.