Browsing search results

Once you have completed a search, the application displays a list of results based on your search criteria. If the application queried multiple PACS systems, it will integrate the query results together into a single unified list.

You can browse and sort the results list, preview the content of individual studies, and load series directly into the viewer.

In some configurations, returning users can access the most recently loaded studies from the History section of the search results, eliminating the need to repeat recent searches.

See Series and other data types for a table summarizing the types of content that can be included in studies.

Search results summary

The number of results returned is displayed above the search results.

Each entry in the search results will display a summary of the study's information (patient name, ID, gender and date of birth, and study acquisition date) to help you determine at a glance if this is the study that you are interested in.

Depending on which features were enabled by the system administrator, each entry may also include a menu () and display icons that provide visual cues about the study or document. For example, in the image below containing anonymized data, the study forward icon ( ) indicates that the study has been forwarded to another institution (see Worklist menus for more information).

To sort search results

• Click the column heading that you wish to use as the sort criteria.

  Clicking the same search criteria again reverses the sorting order of the search results.

Previewing studies

Expanding a study will help you find exactly what you want to view, and gain a good idea of what a study contains before loading any actual images from the server.

When you expand a study, you will see the individual series, reports, and other patient documents that it contains.

To expand a search result entry

• Click the .

To collapse a search result entry

• Click the to the left of the entry.

To select a search result entry

• Click the entry that you wish to select. It will appear highlighted when it are selected.

To deselect search result entries

Do one of the following:

• Click the selected entries. Their highlight will disappear when they are deselected.
• Click Deselect All. This will deselect all the entries in the search results.

To add selected studies or patient documents to the worklist

• Click Add to Worklist.

  Once studies or patient documents have been added to the worklist, they are greyed out in the search results.

For details on how to interact with the worklist once studies have been added, see Using the worklist.

Loading data

You can load studies and other patient documents into the viewer directly from the search results.

To open a study directly in the viewer

• Double-click the study that you want to open. This will close any other open studies.

Below are some notes about system behavior when loading content into the viewer.

• The application supports intelligent layouts, which means that it will automatically determine the optimal layout for loading images based on the modality, device screen size, and number of series in the study (unless your server administrator has disabled this feature). For more information, see Intelligent layouts.

• The Synapse Mobility software will notify you if you attempt to load unsupported data. You will be able to view the data, but there will be a persistent warning in red that you are viewing unsupported data.

• Some data sets may contain measurements and annotations saved from another viewing system, such as as GSPS (Greyscale Softcopy Presentation State) or CSPS (Color Softcopy Presentation State) information. When this is the case, an icon () is displayed on the right side of the series in the search results and in the worklist. See Toggling the display of GSPS/CSPS data.

Selecting recently loaded studies

Depending on how the system administrator configured the server, you may have access to a History section in the search panel.

The history displays a list of recently loaded studies (the maximum number of entries in this list is also configured by the system administrator). This can be a time-saver, as it eliminates the need to repeat recent searches.

This list is organized in reverse chronological order, with the most recently loaded study at the top. You can navigate this list the same way you would any other search result, such as expanding studies to view their content and loading studies directly in the viewer.