Using Cine

When you are using cine, Synapse displays images sequentially, at a controlled rate, measured in frames per second (fps).

You can customize Cine settings to define the play rate for single frame images and add the Auto-play and Loop During Scroll setting options for multiframe images. Additionally, when Hybrid Mode is enabled, you can delay the cine Auto-play function to allow adequate time to download an image by selecting the On cache complete (requires Hybrid Mode) setting option. See Configuring Cine Settings.

You can also display and dynamically update reference lines during cine by configuring the Reference Lines user setting. For more information, see the References Lines section in Configuring Cross Reference Settings.

Note:

The Viewer prevents cine from playing when more than one tile displays in a Viewport.
Annotations do not display while cine is playing if the modality of the image or series is X-Ray Angiographic, ultrasound, Multiframe Grayscale Byte Secondary Capture, or Multiframe True Color Secondary Capture.
Non multiframe viewports only support one cine toolbar playing at a time.
When radiology studies are in cine mode, shortcut keys and context menu functions will pause cine, except for certain functions, including:
- Save study annotations
- Save series annotations
- Reset annotations
- Show annotations
- Save presentation state

Cine Toolbar

You can drag the cine toolbar to any location within the Viewer when viewing non multiframe images.

The cine toolbar includes the options shown in these images. Hover over the toolbar to display tooltips. All of the Viewer toolbar icons work while cine is playing in multiframe and non multiframe viewports.

The fps rate only displays when cine is playing.

Steps

Right-click the image to display a context menu.
Select Cine.
Do any of the following:

If you want to...	Cine Toolbar Option	Description
Play cine		Click to display images in a video-like sequence. The default order is first-to-last. Click Play or press the spacebar in the viewport with the multiframe image. For single frame images, press the spacebar to initiate cine. Move the cine toolbar to your preferred location.
Pause cine or stop cine		Click Pause on the cine toolbar.
Use Oscillate / Loop Mode		Click the Oscillate or Loop icons to reverse the scrolling direction when cine reaches the last image. Click the icon again to change the mode. The hover text indicates the current mode.
Use the Frame Slider to adjust the frame rate		See Using the Frame Slider.
Start cine for a multiframe image.		Click Pause or the spacebar in the viewport with the multiframe image.
Change the fps rate that cine uses.	no image	Click the frame slider and do the following: To increase the fps, roll the mouse wheel forward. To decrease the fps, roll the mouse wheel backward.
Access anything else in the Synapse PACS display while cine is active.		Click Pause on the Cine toolbar.
See any reference lines and annotations in an image.		Click Pause on the Cine toolbar.
Change image sequence direction (first to last, or last to first).	no image	Use the Play, Loop Mode, or Oscillate options on the Cine toolbar.
Reposition the cine toolbar on your monitor.	no image	Click the Cine toolbar and drag the toolbar to where you want it.

Results

When the end of a sequence is reached, the images continue to loop or oscillate until you stop cine. Oscillate reverses the direction when cine reaches the last image.

Changing the frame rate sets a new value – per modality – that will be stored for you. As a result, Synapse uses the new cine frame rate value for that modality and becomes the default value when you open studies with this modality. However, Synapse overrides this default value if the study has a frame rate specified in its DICOM header.

Using Cine

Cine Toolbar

Steps

Results

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