PACS
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PACS
Desktop Viewer
The Annotations page contains the settings that can be used to control font size as well as apply tick marks to calculate distance and include indices for referencing.
| General Settings | Default | Description |
Show Ruler Tick Marks |
Disabled | Linear measurement annotations support tick marks to assist in calculating distances. When tick marks are enabled, the marks appear on linear measurement annotations. Override this setting on an individual basis by right clicking on the specific annotation and select Show tick marks to toggle the setting. |
Annotation Font Size |
13 | Font size fo the text used for annotations (range: 5-30 point). |
Measurement unit |
mm | Default unit of measurement displayed when using annotation tools |
Value precision |
1 | Specifies the number of digits after the decimal point. For values less than 1 that are too small to be represented with this precision, the Maximum number leading zero digits setting can be used to increase accuracy |
Maximum number of leading zero digits |
0 | Adds further precision for values smaller than 1 by specifying the maximum number of zeros before the first non-zero digit after the decimal point. |
3D distance measurement result position |
After | Default position of the result text on 3D distance measurement annotation |
3D angle result position |
After | Default position of the result text on 3D angle annotation |
The following settings are modality specific. Check/choose modality value in drop down before changing.
Show value for new distance, angle, Hounsfield, ROI, and free region annotations by default. You can override these settings individually for each annotation from the context menu.
| Annotation tool | Default |
| Distance measurement | Enabled for all modalities except MG |
| Angle measurement | Enabled for all modalities except MG |
| Area ROI | Enabled for all modalities except MG |
| Free region | Enabled for all modalities except MG |
| Hounsfield value | Default |
| Show average value | Enabled |
| Show standard deviation | Enabled |
| Show maximum value | Enabled |
Show center point for new area and Hounsfield region of interest annotations by default. You can override these settings individually for each annotation from the context menu.
| Show center point | Default |
| Area ROI | Enabled |
| Hounsfield ROI | Enabled |