• Object ID: 00000018WIA30EBB770GYZ
  • Topic ID: id_40025292 Version: 1.4
  • Date: Aug 17, 2022 12:38:45 PM

Save Localizer

Before you begin

Consider this information when using the Save Localizer feature.
  • Save Localizer on the Graphic Rx menu toolbar is not available if Save Localizer is turned off on the System Preference screen.
  • Localizer Screen Save Images are generated only if Enable Save Localizer is turned On in the Graphic Rx Toolbar menu and if Enable Save Localizer is turned On in the Exam Preference screen.
  • The default state for Scan localizer is off under the following conditions:
    • The scan plane is 3-plane or the imaging mode is Calibration.
    • The scan is a multi-voxel Probe-P spectroscopy acquisition.
    • The patient ID is geservice.
  • If you change the default setting for Scan Localizers on the Graphic Rx toolbar menu, the changed setting is saved into the protocol and will be recalled when the protocol is loaded again.
  • When Save Localizer is enabled, your Graphic Rx localizers are automatically saved, unless no valid localizer is available for the series.
  • If you enter locations via the keyboard, localizers are saved if you open the Graphic Rx window and the scan plane is orthogonal (axial, sagittal, coronal or 3-plane). If the scan plane is oblique, the Graphic Rx localizers are not saved.
  • Localizers in each of the Graphic Rx viewports are saved together with the graphic objects that they hold except for the following items:
    • Localizer image annotations
    • Add and rotation handles of graphic objects
    • Shim volume
  • The localizer images are saved as type SSAVE. The DICOM tag Burned in Annotation has the value NO to ensure that image annotations are visible when localizer images are viewed.
  • If the exam is anonymized, the Saved Localizer series does not appear in the anonymized exam. No screen saved images can be anonymized because the annotation is burned into the image and therefore it cannot be removed.
  • The localizer image is saved to the database only if at least one image in the series has been scanned. Images of a series number M are saved in the database as a separate series defined as N=2000+M.
  • Localizer images for series copied or pasted from another series will be saved.
  • Localizers whose series scan locations have been inherited from another series via the Copy Rx or Link function.

About this task

Use these steps to toggle on/off the Save Localizer feature so that the localizer images display when the Scan Localizer icon is selected from the Viewer.

You can select a preference for the Enable Save Localizers from the System Preference screen. For details, see Save localizers preferences.

Step-by-step instructions

  1. From an active scan, click the Graphic Rx Tools menu icon.
  2. From the Graphic Rx Tools menu, click the Enable Save Localizers check box.
  3. To turn off Save Localizers, click the Enable Save Localizers check box again. It is a toggle feature.