Splitting studies


 

Separate a single study into two or more studies from the Split Study page. Users with Edit permissions have a Split button on the Quick View page. The split study page consists of three sections. The top section is the control area identifying the new groupings. The second section displays all the images in the study grouped by series. The last section displays an icon for each report object (main report, addendum, private report file) in the study. 

  1. Start by determining the image's reference number.  It is reported in the header for each series, or place the mouse over the image or report and it will pop up. 

  2. In the control section, select Series or Image from the pull-down list, enter the starting and ending Series/Image number and a new accession number. 

  3. The existing reports are copied into all new studies with the Copy Reports box checked.  

  4. If you want to remove the existing reports, click the Delete Unassigned Reports box.  This option requires the user have Delete permissions.

  5. Click the Apply button. 

  6. Groups are color coded. All series, images and reports assigned to the same accession number will be put onto the same study. If you skipped any images, change the assignments to include them in one of the new studies.

  7. When all the image and report objects are assigned to a new group, the Split button becomes active. Click this button to complete the separation. 

  8. It may be necessary at this point to modify the patient demographic information by using the edit function from the worklist.

When splitting a study consisting of objects dependent on image objects, such as presentation state objects of mammography CAD SR objects, they are automatically copied into the study with the referenced image object. The list of files is displayed on the split screen in a separate section at the bottom of the page, but unlike the image sections, they are not eligible for assignment, and unlike report objects, cannot be removed.

 

To remove images completely, split them into their own study, and then delete the new study when finished.

 

Studies retrieved from third party archives and imported from DICOM media cannot be split.