RadiAnt DICOM Viewer
User manual
Version 4.2.1
11/28/2017
http://www.radiantviewer.com
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Table of contents
Table of contents
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1 Welcome to RadiAnt DICOM Viewer
1.1 Features
1.2 System requirements
1.3 Installation
1.4 Activation
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Trial license activation
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Paid license activation
Deactivation
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2 Basic Topics
2.1 Opening a DICOM study from a CD/DVD
2.2 Opening a DICOM study from a folder
2.3 Opening a DICOM study from a ZIP archive
2.4 Opening specific DICOM file(s)
2.5 Opening a study from a PACS server
2.6 Using basic tools
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Browsing series and images
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Changing brightness / contrast
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Changing zoom level / position
2.7 Taking measurements
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Length
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Ellipse
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Angle
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Cobb angle
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Deviation
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Pencil tool
2.8 Flips / Rotations
2.9 Cine mode
2.10 Annotations
2.11 Copying to the clipboard
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2.12 Full-screen mode
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3 Advanced Topics
3.1 Exporting images
3.2 Multiple series viewing
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Multiple windows
Synchronization
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Auto synchronization
Manual synchronization
Cross-reference lines
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Adding more studies
Splitting series
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3.3 ROI operations
3.4 2D Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR)
3.5 3D Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR)
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Changing the viewing plane
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Browsing volume
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Changing zoom level and position
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Changing brightness / contrast
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Changing thickness (MIP/MinIP/Avg)
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Length measurement
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Exporting images
Window configuration
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3.6 3D Volume Rendering (VR)
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Rotations
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Changing zoom level and position
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Changing color and opacity
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Removing unwanted structures
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Length measurement
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Exporting images
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3.7 Image fusion (PET-CT)
3.8 Time-intensity curves (TIC)
3.9 PACS connectivity
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PACS search presets
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PACS configuration
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PACS troubleshooting
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PACS integration
3.10 Special types of DICOM files
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Structured report (SR)
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MPEG2/4 video
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Encapsulated PDF
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DICOMDIR
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3.11 DICOM tags
3.12 Changing language
3.13 Keyboard customization
4 Appendix
4.1 Keyboard shortcuts
4.2 Mouse functions
4.3 Multi-touch operations
4.4 Configuration files
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Options.xml
Overlay.xml
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4.5 Command-line arguments
4.6 URL protocol
4.7 Setup arguments
4.8 CD/DVD Autorun Package
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Welcome to RadiAnt DICOM Viewer
RadiAnt DICOM Viewer is an application for processing and displaying medical images in DICOM
format (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine).
The viewer allows users to open studies from CD/DVD/BluRay disks, flash memory, local and
network folders, and PACS locations.
Studies obtained from different imaging modalities can be displayed in RadiAnt DICOM Viewer:
· Digital Radiography (CR, DX)
· Mammography (MG)
· Computed Tomography (CT)
· Magnetic Resonance (MR)
· Positron Emission Tomography PET-CT (PT)
· Ultrasonography (US, IVUS)
· Digital Angiography (XA)
· Gamma camera, Nuclear medicine (NM)
· Secondary Pictures and Scanned Images (SC)
· Endoscopy (ES)
· Microscopy (SM, GM)
· Structured Reports (SR)
The viewer can handle many types of DICOM images:
· Monochromatic (e.g. CR, CT, MR) and color (e.g. US, 3D reconstruction)
· Static images (e.g. CR, MG, CT) and dynamic sequences (e.g. XA, US)
· Uncompressed and compressed (RLE, JPEG Lossy, JPEG Lossless, JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS)
· MPEG2/MPEG4 compressed video files
RadiAnt DICOM Viewer is not a medical product. It has no FDA/CE or any other
certifications and is not intended for diagnostic purposes.
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1.1
Features
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· Opening DICOM studies from CD/DVD/BluRay disks and local or network folders.
· Searching and downloading DICOM studies from PACS locations (servers, workstations,
modalities).
· A simple and intuitive interface with full-screen mode.
· Multi-touch support for Windows 8/8.1/10 enabled devices.
· Excellent performance – 64-bit version available, multi-core and multi-processor support,
asynchronous reading (you can browse images while they are being opened), advanced memory
management system which facilitates concurrent opening of studies with thousands of images. All
provided within a compact application (installer size is just around 3MB).
· Image operations:
§ Fluid zooming and panning.
§ Brightness and contrast adjustment, and negative mode.
§ Preset window settings for Computed Tomography (lung, bone, etc.).
§ Rotations (90 and 180 degrees), and flips (horizontal and vertical).
· Regions of Interest (ROIs):
§ Measurement of segment length.
§ Measurement of mean, minimum and maximum parameter value (e.g. density in Hounsfield
Units in Computed Tomography) within circle/ellipse and its area.
§ Measurement of angle value (normal and Cobb angle).
§ Measurement of deviation.
§ Pen tool for freehand drawing.
· Browsing of several series concurrently in multiple panels with automatic synchronization between
series with images acquired in the same plane (e.g. Computed Tomography series before and
after contrast media administration) or manual synchronization between series from different
studies with similar patient orientation and cross reference lines in series with different image
planes (e.g. Magnetic Resonance study).
· Display of dynamic sequences/series (CINE) with adjustment of frames per second.
· 2D (orthogonal) Multi-planar Reconstruction (2D MPR).
· 3D (oblique) Multi-planar Reconstruction (3D MPR) with MIP (maximum intensity projection), MinIP
(minimum intensity projection) and Avg (average) modes.
· 3D Volume Rendering (VR).
· Fusion of series with different modalities (e.g. PET-CT) or with different protocols (e.g. MR T1/T2
– DWI).
· Time-intensity curves (TIC, e.g. for Breast MRI).
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· Support for DICOM overlays (annotations or graphic overlays included in the file).
· Export of DICOM images to JPEG and BMP picture formats and DICOM series/sequences to
movies in WMV format.
· Display DICOM file structure with searchable DICOM tags, their descriptions and values.
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System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
· Microsoft Windows system (XP SP3, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
are supported)
· Intel or AMD 1GHz or faster processor (multicore Intel processor recommended)
· 512MB of RAM (2GB recommended)
· 5MB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required for image
caching
· 1024x768 screen resolution
1.3
Installation
Download RadiAnt DICOM Viewer from https://www.radiantviewer.com
Save the file to your computer - depending on your connection speed, the software may require
between one second and one minute to download in full.
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