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Preferences utility
Preferences is used to access and modify your systems configuration setup. In Preferences you can adjust certain definitions of the system to fit your organizations specific needs. All applications in Brilliance Workspace Portal are influenced by definitions made in the preferences utilities. Preferences allows for your system to be more user friendly. Preferences is launched from Archive Manager in the Directory (Located right above the date and time). In the Preferences window there is a list of categories that display on the left side. To browse between categories click

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on a category. Once that category opens you can view that window. Only one category can be opened at a time.

Preferences has a set of system definitions that you can control for Brilliance Workspace Portal. Some of the definitions are application specific and some are system wide.
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Preferences only affect the user system.

The following are the categories that are available in Preferences:

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Patient Directory Windowing Presets Image Titles Measurements Save Images

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Buttons
In the lower right side of the window there are three buttons that are available in all categories within Preferences. They are available once youve completed your preferences selections. The buttons are: Default - Set the current preset to its default values. OK - Save all changes and exit application. Cancel - Discard all changes and ends the session.
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Unavailable fields are grayed out or hidden. Archive functions are not available while Preferences is in use. Some fields do not have a default value and are not changed by the default button.

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Patient Directory

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Patient Directory
The Patient Directory category allows you to define the search fields that appear in the search dialogue and the order they appear.

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The Patient Directory changes only effect the Search Dialogue and has no effect on the Patient Directory Columns.

Always use Sub Selection - by default, is not selected. If you want to use sub selection all the time, select the check box. Time and Date settings - allow you to configure the time and date display to Military or US time and US or International date formats. Show free space - indicates the device for which free space is being displayed in the Directory status box.

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Display free space - allows you to select the Gb (DVD-R) or the Mgb (CDR) display for viewing free space from the device.

Filters
You can move filters between the Available filter and Selected filters boxes by using the arrows. All options that appear in the Available filters box wont appear in the search dialog. All options that appear in the Selected Filters box appears in the search dialog. Choose the available filters and move to the selected filter box. Arrange the filters how you want them to display in the Search Dialog.
Buttons

Move Up / Move Down You can change the order of the fields in the Selected Filters box by clicking the Move Up or Move Down buttons.
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Modalities
You determine which modalities that are to appear in the Search Dialog field.
Buttons

Add Modality / Remove Click on the Add Group button to open a dialog box in which you can create a new Modality Group. To define the search fields: Check the modalities that you would like to select in the Search Dialog. If you must add a modality click on Add Group. Name and define the modality. To remove a modality check the box next to modality, click on Remove Group.
Note

You can only delete newly created modalities. You can not delete any of the default modalities.

Click OK.

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Windowing Presets
In the Windowing Presets category you can set presets for CT, MR and PET by clicking on respective tab. For all applications showing images you can configure windowing presets. Use this preset to access the windowing levels modification (Name, Center, Width and Keyboard Short cut) for the systems preset organs. The Name, Center and Width of each preset can be changed. To change a field click on the field and type.

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There are a total of 10 keyboard shortcuts available (0-9) but you can build up to 15 presets.

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Allowed values
Center: -1024 to 4095 Width: -1024 to 4095 Keyboard Shortcuts: 0-9
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Name fields can contain any character. Center and Width only can contain numbers. Keyboard short cut numbers can not be changed. When you delete an entry in the Name field, the entries in the Center, Width, higher, lower (Pet) fields are also deleted.

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To modify windowing presets: Click on desired tab, CT, MR or PET. Make modifications; place cursor in the desired field. Enter the new value(s) Click OK

To add windowing presets: Go to a blank row and enter desired values. Click OK

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Image Titles

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Any image titles that are selected to be displayed appear in bold type in the Image title list.

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Preferences for Image Titles

Image titles are displayed along the edges of viewports, and include patient and hospital information, and scan data. Some Image Titles are displayed in the viewports by default, as delivered from the factory. Changes you can make to the display of image titles include removing titles from the display, adding new titles from a list of available titles, and determining where in the viewport you want titles to display. (Image titles for CT, MR, and PET modalities are provided in separate lists.) Adding image titles to viewport - Click on the desired title in the list of titles and drag it to the desired location in the Title preview image. The title will appear in red text in the preview image. Determining when the title will be displayed - Use the Show title selector to determine when the title will be shown: always - in every viewport in medium and large view ports in large view ports only (too many titles may obscure the patient image in smaller viewports) never - select this to remove the title from all viewports Moving a title to another location in the viewport - Click on the title in the Title preview viewport and drag it to another location. A blue box surrounds the location where the title is positioned. (You can also remove a title from the preview image by dragging it back into the list.) Ruler display - You can have the ruler display in the image viewports according to the same parameters as Show titles: always, in medium and large view ports, in large view ports only, and never.

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Measurements
Within Measurements you can control the default properties of different graphic elements. The Measurements window displays fields that you can modify; the cursor options, line options, ROI options and the default size of text.

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To make modifications to measurements: Define Measurements Click OK

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Save Images

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Save Images
Allows you to select the default storage devices that images are saved to when using the direct save option within the application. The Save Images window displays options for default devices for Direct Saves and the quality of how JPEG and AVI files are saved.

Default Devices
You can define one or more of the following as the devices for direct save. One (or more) of the devices configured in the system. The device from which the images were loaded.

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Choose Devices
Click on the choose devices button to open a list of all devices configured in the system. The selected devices are highlighted. Select the device, click OK/Cancel.

Quality of JPEG Image / AVI Movies

You can control the quality of how JPEG and AVI files are saved. The quality is controlled through the slide bar which has four ticks low, medium, high and highest.
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There are 2 levels of movie qualities High and Low, they each have a range of low to high. This also sets the speed of the cine for AVI movies.

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CT Viewer
With CT Viewer you control the location of reference images inside the batch, the location of the mini-reference image, appearance of the Preview window and the batch presets.

The CT Viewer window displays option you can select for Image, Batch representation and Batch - Preview.

Image
You can define image settings and how it appears in the batch for the following; image parameters frame, reference image and mini-reference image. To select options for each click on the arrows in the drop down boxes.

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Batch representation
With batch representation you decided whether the lines representing the batch should appear on the reference page.

Batch Preview
By checking one of the following output functions; Save, Save As, Film and/or Report you can determine whether the preview window opens.

Show Transparency
Effects the transparency of the image in Volume of CT viewer.

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Segmentation Presets

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Segmentation Presets
The Segmentation Presets category allows you to view, add or modify segmentation presets, for both CT and MR. You can also view, add or modify these presets in the Volume mode of the CT Viewer, where they are called Tissue Presets. The Segmentation Presets window displays the Name, Center and Width columns for which each of the presets can be changed. You can modify the Name, Center and Width by clicking in the field and typing in the value. New presets can be added too. Segmentation Preset values are:

Center: -1024, 4095 Width: -1024, 4095

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Reporting
The Reporting category launches Template Editor. In Template Editor you can set default languages, logo configurations and template editor configurations. For more detailed information about Reporting refer to the General Reporting chapter.

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Film Header / Footer

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Film Header / Footer

In the Film Header/Footer category you can define what appears in the header and footer of the film and configure annotations.

Displayed in the Header/Footer window are annotation selections, a view of the header and footer and properties you can define. You can make the header and footer wider or narrower. To make modifications to the properties: Select annotations Define properties of each annotation

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AVA
Specific to the AVA application. In the AVA window is an icon that you click on to launch the utility, Stent protocol editor.

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Licensing

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Licensing
In licensing you can see which applications are licensed as well as initiate temporary licensing. In the Licensing window are the listing of the permanent licenses and the temporary licenses.
Permanent Licenses

Displays a list of all permanently licensed applications.

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User
In the User category you can enable or disable image compression quality, change the password, set the user interface for resolution.

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Image Compression Quality

Compression is used for the communication of images from the server to the client. Only lossless versions of images are saved. If image compression quality is enabled, images are compressed to reduce network bandwidth consumption and enhance interactivity at some cost to image quality. If compression is disabled, this control has no effect.
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There are four choices for image quality. The best choice for quality is lossless, though it is the slowest. All images that are saved/filmed/reported are lossless. All images are labeled when copression is used.

Compression is used to improve system performance. In Portal 2.6 Jpegs are used for lossy compression and zip for lossless. When using lossless compression (Q=100%), the images that are being displayed are DICOM. The DICOM ZIP is used only for the network transfer. Jpeg are displayed when lossy (Q<100%), compression is used. The meaning of the compression index (e.g. 60%) is the index for quality, an indication of how the resulting picture compares with the original. 100% means lossless 80% is near lossless
Connection

The following affects the compression: Main Location: lossless images Wide Area Network: Lossy 80% Cable/DSL Modem: Lossy 60% IDSN/Modem: Lossy 40% Custom: allows you to set the compression level

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Below is the relation between image quality and the compression index: Q100: 2-3 : 1 (lossless compression) Q80: 7-10 : 1 (Wide ares network) Q60: 8 -15 : 1 (Cable modem) Q40: 12-20 : 1 (ISDN)
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3:1 means that a typical 512 Kb CT image becomes 170 Kb; At 20:1 the image becomes 25 Kb

The ratio changes for a given compression index because the compression ratio depends on the content o the image - clean image with lots of air background compresses better (have a bigger ratio) than a low dose noisy image with little air in the background. The affect on performance depends on the speed of the network. The slower the network, the more beneficial the compression.

To control compression index

There are three ways to control compression:
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On the main login page under Connection properties, click the drop down to select the type of connection you have for proper compression.

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Login Click Preferences Click User under the Preferences directory Change the default settings Under Image compression quality make the changes

Inside the application

Click on the compression icon.

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Password
You can change your password at any time.

Click on the change password button. The Change Password Dialogue box opens. Enter the Current Password Enter the New Password. Confirm New Password by entering the new password again. Click OK to change.
Strong passwords are common.

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User Interface for Resolution

You can set the resolution to High, Low, and Auto. Auto selects the best resolution for the screen. The Portal application is designed to work in two resolutions, Low - 1040 x 768 (minimum) and High -1280 x 1024 (recommended).

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