About hanging protocols

The purpose of a hanging protocol is to display the images in a study in a consistent manner. While the term originally referred to the arrangement of physical films in a film box, it now refers to the display of images on computer monitors. When properly set up, the use of hanging protocols significantly improves reading quality and efficiency.

When opening a study, OptosAdvance analyzes the DICOM attributes of the study and identifies matching hanging protocols. If any candidates are found, the best one is selected and applied automatically. You can also choose a hanging protocol when viewing a study (see Select hanging protocols).

Depending on your OptosAdvance license, you will have access to either clinical or advanced hanging protocols.

• Clinical hanging protocols allow you to quickly create protocols based on the study modality. You can also include studies based on the series description.
• Advanced hanging protocols have additional anchor study matching options. They also include the ability to select prior studies for comparison, load prior studies in specific viewports, and apply presentation settings (window level, invert greyscale, zoom, and orientation).

 

The Hanging Protocols page has two tabs:

• Protocols  Contains a list of all hanging protocols in OptosAdvance. You can add, edit, clone, delete, enable/disable, import and export protocols.
• Rules templates  Contains a list of rules templates you can optionally use when creating a hanging protocol. Rules templates make it easy to apply a standard set of rules to multiple hanging protocols. If you make changes to a rules template, the changes will also be applied to all protocols using the template.