Configuring Overlay Settings

Synapse automatically applies your selected Overlays settings to each study you open on your workstation.

You can configure the following settings in the Overlay settings tab:

Path

User Settings > Image Display > Overlays

Steps

  1. Modify the following settings as needed.
  2. Optional: When you finish configuring all settings, click Close

Overlays Settings

Setting

Description

Show text overlays

If selected, Synapse displays text overlays when you open a study.

This setting is selected by default.

Enable persist overlay mode

If selected, allows the text overlays to display while scrolling through images.

Note:

  • This setting is cleared by default.
  • The DICOM headers are preloaded from the beginning of the series to the end and might take some time to load.
  • If you scroll before the series is completely loaded, the images display overlays, but overlays might temporarily display "---" values.
  • This feature is not supported for the following:
    • Series: All Images and Bookmark
    • Modalities: US, XA, OT, ES, IVUS, IVOCT, OCT
    • Mouse settings: Dynamic Scroll-Standard and Dynamic Scroll-Precision
    • Viewports with more than 1000 images

Show bitmap overlays

If selected, Synapse displays bitmap overlays (burned in bitmap overlays in the DICOM file) on images when you open a study or when you change to a different reading protocol.

This setting is selected by default.

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Show Slider Bar Settings

Setting

Description

Show Slider Bar for initial display

This setting displays the slider bar for the selected modalities upon the initial display of each image.

All displayed modalities are selected by default.

Font/Icon Size Settings

If you change the Font/Icon Size settings, it will impact how all text and icons display in the Viewer. This includes context menus, icon menus, and text overlays.

Setting

Description

Text overlay

Synapse applies the selected font size as you make selections from each of the drop-down lists.

  • Select a font size from each of the drop-down lists:
    • X-Small
    • Small
    • Medium
    • Large
    • X-Large

Study list

Viewer Toolbar

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Colors Settings

Setting

Description

Text overlay

Synapse applies the selected colors as you make selections from each of the drop-down lists.

  • Select an overlay color from each of the drop-down lists.
  • Click OK.

The RGB color values range is 0(00) to 255(FF).

Scale

Annotation

Focus border

Reference lines

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Anonymous Items Settings

Setting

Description

Anonymize

  • Select this check box to anonymize patient information.
  • When selected, studies load in anonymized mode by default.
  • If you log out and log back into the same workstation, the setting remains.

Available

Use the left and right arrow keys to determine which items should be anonymized.

  • In the Available combo box, select all the items you want to anonymize.
    TIP: Press the CTRL key for multiple selections.
  • Click the right arrow to move your selections to the Selected combo box.
  • Click the left arrow to remove your selections from the Selected combo box.

Results

Synapse automatically saves any updated options and displays the following message in the bottom left corner of the window: Successfully saved.

Synapse displays the following message that you must take the following action to apply the settings: Refresh the Synapse browser window for settings to apply.

Synapse displays the image slider bar for a series that has 15 or more images regardless of whether you select Show text overlays or not.

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Related Topics

Text Overlays Overview

Displaying and Hiding Text Overlays