Patient input form: to read
the functions of each of the tool bar buttons, position the mouse pointer over the button
concerned (Tool tip text).
When the form has been completed (example shown), double-click
button 2 (camera) to load up the image to the LC database from the directory where
it was previously saved: search and select the image.
If
you would rather use the screen as a negatoscope, click button 1 (screen), the window
illustrated to the right will then open automatically (Select methodology), select your
preferred option and click OK. (The default method is the Comparative analysis).
At this stage, the window shown below will be displayed (locating landmarks).
If
you previously selected the screen image processing option, instead of the x-ray, window 3
will be displayed with a plain, white background which the x-ray to be examined must be
physically superimposed on; the various points to be located on the image are indicated
and explained in a table at the top right of this window. If the image should disappear,
click where it was and it will be displayed again.
If a landmark is incorrectly drawn or if you wish to delete all
points drawn, use the tool bar and pop up menu commands (right mouse button).
When a single point is deleted, it will turn white.
Special Feature: when the pull-down menu is opened, the points drawn on the screen
where the pull down part is shown will be physically cancelled from the screen (but not
from the memory).
Click inside the picture box to display the results of the analysis,
the next screen will be the one shown here (tracing) that allows various options to be
performed.
To read the functions of each of the tool bar buttons, position the mouse pointer over
the button concerned (Tool tip text).
The
tracing window menus are clear and require no explanation, whilst the image menu merits a
closer look:
a) Tracing
on a white background: It functions rather like the last button from the
right on the toolbar, and lets you view the "plain tracing" on a white
background.
To freely move the tracing around, use the buttons located at the top left of the
window.
b)
Tracing on free background: This function allows you to position the
tracing on any background whatsoever, previously scanned and saved in the usual image
directory.
If you need to combine the tracing with the patient's profile and
main anatomical structures, using your negatoscope and traditional tracing paper,
you should simply and easily draw what you require, once this drawing has been scanned and
uploaded (to superimpose it on a white background you'll need to cover the tracing paper
with another sheet of white paper), it can then be used as the basis for a tracing.
Alternatively, the tracing can be done on any other kind of
previously uploaded background, whether it be a coloured base, a logo, or any other kind
of image that you may require.
To freely move the tracing around, use the buttons located at the
top left of the window.
c) Tracing
on a X-Ray: This function displays the tracing on a scanned x-ray or on a
white background if the acquisition was not done using a scanner (tracing window).
d) Superimpose
on a white background: When you click this menu, the
"Superimpose" window appears (compared with the image on n. 9 , in this case
only a white background is shown, rather than the anatomical profile drawing), from which
you can immediately do the first tracing from the currently selected record. To change the
first tracing or to choose the next one, use the " Find tracing" button and a
window not unlike the "find patient" one will open, as regards its features and
functions. The tracing colour can be defined with the "Select colour" button.
Once the first tracing is in position and saved using the "Save first tracing"
button, find and select the second tracing, click the "Show tracing" button
again then double-click with the right button of the mouse to position the second tracing
too. To freely move the tracings around and to superimpose images on any plane, use the
buttons located at the top left of the window. The resulting image is shown above.
e) Superimposing
Images: To superimpose tracings on anatomic profiles, the sheets of tracing
paper with the previously completed drawings must be superimposed and covered with a sheet
of white paper then scanned. The resulting image can then be used as the basis for future
superimposed images.
When you click this menu, window 8 appears, from which you can immediately do the first
tracing from the currently selected record. To change the first tracing or to choose the
next one, use the " Find tracing" button and a window not unlike the "Find
patient" one will open, as regards its features and functions.
The tracing colour can be defined with the "Select colour" button. Once the
first tracing is in position and saved using the "Save first tracing" button,
find and select the second tracing, click the "show tracing" button again then
double-click with the right button of the mouse to position the second tracing too. To
move the tracings around and to superimpose images on any plane, use the buttons located
at the top left of the window.
