HOW TO VIEW DAILY FLOODS IN GROUND RHOADS READING RM

In the following instructions names of menus are underlined. Phrases that you type are in bold font Unless otherwise specified, "click" means click the left mouse button. Instructions in square brackets go into greater detail than an experienced user will require.

1. Use the middle mouse button menu to select Disk Manager. [Position mouse outside all windows. Click and hold middle mouse button, slide mouse down until Disk Manager item is highlighted, then release mouse button. If entire screen is covered with windows, hold down both the Alt and Shift keys as you complete the instructions in the previous sentence.]

2. Move mouse into Disk Access Manager window and mount the following disks:

   prism34:/img08

   prism34:/img15

   jupiter:/img02

   [Move the mouse into the rectangle below the words "Enter path name and select function". When that rectangle is outlined in orange (may have to click mouse inside rectangle) push the F1 key repeatedly to move through a list of the available disks. When the disk you want to mount appears in the window, click the Mount button.]

   A disk is successfully mounted when its name appears in black type in the lower half of the Disk Access Manager window.

3. Open the Clinical Index. [Move mouse to any Image Workbench. Under the Workbench's File menu select Index.] When it is open:

   a. Click Keyword Clear button.

   b. If square beside Network Disks is light blue instead of black, click once on Network Disks button.

   c. Type the word Flood under PATIENT NAME, then hit Enter.

4. Click Select All button then the Patient Index button.

5. Click Keyword Clear button. Type in today's date under ACQ DATE, hit Enter then click Select All button. Format for date is mm/dd/yyyy with no preceding zeroes, e.g. 1/4/1997.

6. Click Done.

7. Under the same Workbench's Display menu, select Display A. In the Control window (usually in lower right corner), set the color scale to gray and number of color bars to 1. Also change mode to Win/Bas then use slider bars to adjust Window to 100 and Base to 0. Gradually increase Base to enhance contrast. An ideal flood is a featureless, uniform gray.

8. To calculate NEMA uniformity numbers, under same Workbench's QC menu select Uniformity.

Last Revision: May 5, 1999