Patient browser tab

Figure 1: A screenshot of the patient browser.

The components of the patient browser are listed below:

• Series table: This is the table located in the bottom half of the patient browser. It is used to displayed the search results of the series in the patient database.

• Refresh button: Clicking this button will refresh the results displayed in the series table.

• Patient name filter text box: Entering a string in this box will filter the results in the series table based on the patient name. Search accepts asterisk ``*'' as a wildcard.

• System serial number combobox: Limit the system serial number of the series shown in the series table to one specific system or not.

• Listmode file combobox: Limit the series shown in the series table to only those that have listmode files currently available on disk, those that do not have listmode files available on disk, or include both.

• DICOM file combobox: Limit the series shown in the series table to only those that have DICOM files currently available on disk, those that do not have DICOM files available on disk, or include both.

• Import series button: Click this button to search and import all series on the current host computer.

• Send series to recon button: Selecting a row from the series table and clicking this button will send the series to the Recon tab. If more than one row is highlighted, only the first row will be sent to the Recon tab.

• Archive DICOM button: Selecting one or more rows in the series table and clicking this button will allow the user to save one or more sets of DICOM files to a location on the host computer. This location may be a directory or a USB thumbdrive.

• Delete series button: Selecting one or more rows in the series table and clicking this button will allow the user to delete different types of files associated with the highlighted series.

• Searching PET series
• Processing a dataset
• Importing data
• Archiving DICOM files
• Deleting data