Masking an Image Using Series Reformat

Masking an Image Using Series Reformat Description: The purpose of this step by step is to aid you in creating masks over areas in an image. 1400 Effective Date: 12/07/2016 1. Select the desired series from the MI Apps Patient Browser and launch the Series Reformat workflow. The workflow will automatically open to the Series Reformat activity. 2. Adjust windowing of the images to clearly visualize the area to mask. 3. All frames are deliniated with a red box. Select the image you would like to mask and click the ROI Tool button. Settings Series Reformat Select Series: Wholebody ROI Tool .. Revert To Original Input 1: Multiple Frame Matrix Size: 256 Resize % % Click the ROI Tool button All frames are delineated with a 5 red box 0 0 Rt Anterior Lt Lt Posterior Rt 2964K Counts 2419K Counts Duration:1210sec Duration:1210sec 256x1024 Pix2.4mm 256x1024 Pix2.4mm 99m Technetium 99m Technetium All Detectors 4. Adjust the windowing, position and magnification of the image using the color bar, pan and zoom tools. % Pan Zoom Tool Tool Color Bar 3 SIEMENS www.usa.siemens.com/healthcare Page 1 of 2 1385 Effective Date: 12/07/2016 5. Select the desired ROI Tool to create the mask. 6. Draw the mask around the desired area. 7. Select the Keep Outside button. 201 Tool X ROI User Interaction Prompt ROI Tool Display Frames · 1×1 @ 1×2 @ 2x1 022 Sum: 1 Select ROI % ROIs : Select ROI MUser Mask tool to create mask ROI Color : 3 Rt Anterior Lt 2964K ounts Duration:1210sec 256x1024 2.4mm 99mTechnetum Edit ROI ROI Name : User Mask Draw mask over area Threshold .......... Keep Outside Keep Inside Cancel Click Keep Outside 8. You should now see the mask you created in the image. 9. To create a mask over another image, click that image and repeat steps 4 through 7. SIEMENS www.usa.siemens.com/healthcare Page 2 of 2