, or click on the patient’s name.
The server URL, User ID and password are supplied by your system administrator. First time users should follow these basic steps to view images:
1. Open your web browser.
2. Type the URL of the eRAD PACS server. The log in page is displayed.
3. After logging in, the default work list is displayed.
4. If your account has Open privileges, download and install the viewer. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, the system detects the missing viewer and prompts you to download it. If no prompt appears, manually download it by clicking the Download Viewer tab. After downloading the setup file, open it to install the viewer. After the viewer is installed, you can open a study.
5. To open a study into the viewer, left click on the folder icon , or click on the patient’s name.
Note: If you click on the folder icon, the study opens into the viewer. If you click on the patient’s name, the server looks for relevant prior exams for that patient. If prior exams exist, another work list is displayed. This work list contains current and prior exams for that patient and allows opening multiple studies into the viewer.
Note: To open multiple image studies into the viewer, click the check box to the left of each study you want to open. Then, click on the batch open folder icon, at the top of the work list table.
6. When the viewer opens, the layout manager pops up when no hanging protocol matches the study. If no layout manager pops up, press the F6 key to open the Layout Manager. To view the displayed images, perform these steps:
a. Change the display format as follows:
1) Select the number of image series to display using one of the grid tools. 
2) Select the number of images within a series to display using one of the tile tools.
b. Scroll through the selected image series as follows:
1) Roll the middle mouse button forward and backward, or
2) Hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse forward and backward.
c. Change window and level settings by holding down the right mouse button while moving the mouse up, down, left, and right.
7. To display the thumbnail panel, select Thumbnail Panel from the View menu, or press Alt-T. The image series appear in the thumbnail window. To move them to the main viewing area,
a. Drag and drop individual thumbnails into each grid.
b. Double click a thumbnail. Double click fills the selected series into a single frame only.
c. Double-click on the study header (at the top of the thumbnail panel) to fill all grids with images.
d. Drag and drop any thumbnail image into an image frame to replace the existing series. All images remain available in the thumbnail window.