Reallocating a Series

Reallocating a series moves the entire series from one study to another study. After the reallocation, Synapse displays the reallocated series in destination study.

Note:
  • If AIPF integration is enabled for your site and one of the studies involved in a merge or reallocation of studies, series, or images includes AI findings, a message displays informing you that the AI findings will be cleared and rescanned. A message also displays if the clear and rescan operation fails.
  • AI findings are cleared at the start of the merge or reallocation operation and the rescan is triggered at the end. If the operation is canceled or interrupted in the middle (for example, closing the window while the operation is in progress), the rescan might not be triggered. In that case, you can trigger a scan manually from the Worklist.
  • If you want to reallocate a series and that series is locked by another user, use the Unlock Study option in the Worklist or PowerJacket. See Changing the Study Status from the Worklist or Using PowerJacket Context Menu.
  • If the Image Object Change Management (IOCM) is enabled, the annotations do not display when you merge studies, series, or images. See your System Administrator for more information.
  • You cannot reallocate series data to or from a CV migrated study.

Prerequisites

You must have the Content Management privilege to access this tool through SWAT. Synapse logs all changes.

Steps

  1. Open Content Manager. See Opening Content Manager.

  2. If necessary, click Split Screen to change the display to split pane.
  3. Locate the source series (the series to be reallocated).
  4. Select Admin, All Patients, or All Studies to locate the source study using the Query By Example (QBE) fields.
    Tip: Enter the Accession number for more precise results.
  5. Locate the destination study (the study that will receive the reallocated series).
  6. Search using the Query By Example (QBE) Fields - locate the correct study (destination) for the reallocation. The best way to accomplish this search is to enter the Accession number.
  7. Click and drag the source series to the destination study.

Results

Synapse transfers the source series folder to the destination study folder. All images in the source series folder display in Synapse with patient information from the host patient folder of the destination study folder.

Advanced Reporting Results

For Advanced Reporting (AR) studies, Synapse moves the measurements for all images in the reallocated series to the destination study. Synapse removes the measurements and derived calculations from the source study.

Synapse does not move the measurements if the destination study is not an AR study.