The PowerViewer is the main viewing application for reading image data. You can easily change the rendition type and image parameters. The PowerViewer enhances the reading capabilities of a study, increases usability, and improves the quality of interpretation.

PowerViewer provides:

• MPR Image Support

• Automatic Registration

• Advanced Comparison Tools

MPR Image Support

You can examine original slices and MPR volumetric images directly from the PowerViewer.

You can easily switch between:

• Viewer—default option for original groups.

• MPR, mipPR, and minPR—available for groups with volumetric data, such as CT, MR, and PET.

Automatic Registration

When the studies are registered, you can easily compare prior and current cases. You can register multiple CT and MR studies with any rendition type, thickness, or orientation.

Automatic registration allows you to:

• Match volume from two or more studies.

• Map corresponding pixels.

• Obtain full three-dimensional matching.

Advanced Comparison Tools

When you register current and prior cases, new tools allow you to correlate the relevant location or pathology across the studies.

These comparison tools include:

• Relate—Make all the registered studies display the same region simultaneously. The reference point shows on all groups with the same frame of reference (FOR).

• Auto-Reference Lines—Automatically set up all the reference lines on all groups with the same FOR and registration, according to the active group.

• Auto-Link—Automatically link registered groups or link groups sharing frame of reference (FOR).

Enhancements to the reading flow include:

• the new Key Images Group

• an enhanced Save Presentation function

• the new Significant Series images

Key Images Group

Display a new Key Images Group in the PowerViewer, and link the images to your study.

The group is available through:

• Patient Mini-Archive (PMA)

• Replace With dialog

The text annotation (KEY) tells you that the image is part of a Key Images Group.

Enhanced Save Presentation

Save all of your unique information, such as vessel segmentations or 3-D manipulations, from any application.

Continue reading the study at a future time from the same display that you saved.

Significant Series Images

Significant Series allow you to ”scan thin and read thick.” You can save certain series as Significant (SIG) and later read, distribute, or store only these series. You can save the whole series as Significant, or save only a sub-volume out of a series.

Global Worklist in Archive Explorer

From the Archive Explorer, you can create a global worklist folder, which:

• Shows studies from all your sites.

• Supports seamless work planning.

• Eliminates the need to log in to different servers.

• Saves you valuable time.

All studies are synchronized with the original server and are sent to your computer as quickly as possible.

Push to Client

You can read studies faster with Push. The Push capability allows you to transfer studies to your home PC or another remote location. Another person can push studies for you as needed, increasing the potential for collaboration between physicians within the enterprise.

You can transfer, monitor, receive, and clear studies from the Archive Explorer.

You can receive studies from the PowerViewer.

With this new application, you can accurately compare different volumetric studies from any modality.

The Volume Matching application provides:

• A set of predefined Display Options.

• Image synchronization and manipulation capabilities.

• Image fusion.

You can use Volume Matching to:

• Swap between primary and secondary images.

• Adjust opacity.

• Apply a color map to show potential pathology.

The PET/CT application is an image viewer, a registration tool, and an analysis workstation.

The application supports all features required for PET/CT reading, including the ability to:

• Fuse together PET and CT images.

• View combined current and prior images to see the progress of an area of pathology.

You can use PET/CT to:

• Select a pre-defined Display Option to present PET, CT, and Fusion images.

• Apply a color map to show potential pathology.

• Apply measurements in Standard Uptake Values (SUV).

• Apply layouts to synchronize PET and CT data sets.

• Register and compare studies.

The enhanced 3-D functions include:

• Volume Rendering Quality applies a special algorithm for high resolution 3-D images.

• Object and Anatomy Removal

• Automatic Bone Removal creates a boneless VolR (below the shoulders). A menu provides new correction tools which you can use to automatically remove additional bone fragments or restore vessel segments.

• Automatic Scanner Bed Removal removes the scanner bed from 3-D images (VolR or MIP).

• MPR Double Oblique allows you to freely swivel the reference images in the MPR and Cardiac applications, and view the same anatomical region from three perpendicular orientations.

• Aneurysm Measurement enables stent planning, such as a stent for an aortic aneurysm.

Ability to add/remove specific DICOM tags from the association in a simple graphical manner.

See Enhanced Transfer Syntax Configuration for more information.

Ability to easily maintain multiple IDs for a patient through the database administrator tool.

See Multiple Patient ID Support (PIX) in Database Administrator Tool for more information.  

Ability to query the global worklist through a regular DICOM query. The query is tunneled to the SuperPACS Data Center.  This allows 3rd party PACS easy and standard access to the Global Worklist.

See DICOM Tunneling for more information.  

This feature enhances local queries for a study with an additional background query to the Data Center for all patient priors.  

This allows you to view the complete patient profile without changing anything in the regular working flow.