Dolphin 3D Reports Sending image(s) to report Click Send Snapshot on any screen in Dolphin3D and choose the Send to Report option Creating a report step by step 1. Generate the desired images in Dolphin3D and hit Send to Report to copy them to the report window a. Once opened, the report window stays loaded for the current scan, even if you click the X button to close it (it will just minimize to the system tray). Send more images or click on the icon in the system tray to bring it back up again. b. The report window does not block Dolphin3D, so you can drag it to a second monitor or keep it in the background as you work with Dolphin3D. 2. When the report window first launches, it will ask you to load a stored template. If the list is empty (because you haven t saved any templates yet) or you wish to design a template from scratch, hit cancel. 3. Select File->New Template to start work on a new template. This brings up the Page Setup dialog where you can choose paper size and orientation as well as the background color and margins. Margins act as guidelines, the program will allow you to place objects outside the margins although it will warn if you do so. 4. Place Image placeholders on the page, either by dragging from the Image gallery or by clicking the Add Image button on the toolbar. The image placeholder is designed to hold a single image such as a Pano, volume rendering, or logo image (loaded from the hard drive). This is in contrast to the Image Group placeholder which can only hold sets of cross sections. a. Any object can be selected by clicking on it, hold the Control key and click to select multiple objects. b. Move objects by dragging them, and resize by dragging the corner handles.
c. Double-click (or right-click and select properties) to bring up the Properties dialog. This is true for any object in the report. On the properties dialog you have a number of settings available such as placing rulers along the sides of the image, whether the image should print as 1:1 or not, etc. d. To display a logo, place an Image placeholder on the page, go to the Properties and select the Image tab. Select From File and click Browse to choose an image file from your hard drive. 5. Place Image Group placeholders in the same way as the Image objects if you have cross sections that you want to put on the page. a. Open the properties dialog (by double-clicking or right-clicking and selecting Properties) to specify setting for the Image Group object. b. An important setting is the Layout settings on the General tab. Here you can control how the cross sections are laid out within the placeholder object. i. No cropping This option means that the Image Group object will simply try to display as many slices as it can within its current dimensions without letting any slice get cropped. ii. Define rows and columns With this option you can manually define how many rows and columns the object will display. So the slices may be cropped if the space available for each slice is less than their actual slice, or if the space available for each slice is larger then there will be blank space between the slices. iii. NOTE: If the slices get cropped by defining rows and columns you can hold down the Shift key and click-drag on a slice to offset it (and all the others) within the viewing area. This way you may be able to show more cross sections than otherwise on a page and still have the relevant anatomy show. c. On the Labels tab are settings for the indicators on each cross section such as slice number and buccal lingual labels. You can set the font, size, color, and position of these labels. d. On the Rulers tab you can set properties for displaying rulers on the control, either for the whole placeholder or on each slice. e. NOTE: Cross sections are always rendered 1:1, for single images this is an optional setting. 6. Place Text Labels to display patient information or any other text info a. Double-click a label to edit the text (and font, color, etc). You can also insert data tokens from the drop-down menu into the text, to pull information from the database such as patient name, ID, DOB, timepoint name and date, etc. 7. When the layout of the template looks ok, save the template by selecting File->SaveTemplate As, pick a descriptive name and the template definition gets saved in a folder under the working directory on your server. This means that the saved template will be available to all computers on your network and that the template definition will be backed up along with all the images in the working folder in the regular backup job on your server.
Reporting Window 1. Image Gallery All images you send to the report module are placed in this scrollable cache of images. From here they can be dragged to a page in the report or into an existing image placeholder on the report page. Note that we store a separate copy of the image when it gets sent to the report, which means that you can make adjustments to the image in the Dolphin3D screen and send to report again, and the new images will be added to the bottom of this list. a. Right-click any image in the image gallery to see a larger view of the image (or set of cross sections) b. Right-click on the gallery window (in a place not occupied by an image) to get the following options i. Fill from timepoint provides the ability to add all the images from a specific timepoint in 2D Imaging to the Image Gallery for use in the report. ii. Hide Image Gallery (there is an option on the View menu to show it again, or keyboard shortcut Ctrl+I to toggle it on and off). 2. Page preview list Contains a scrollable list of preview images of all the pages in the report. This helps getting an overview when the main view is zoomed into a smaller area of the page. a. Clicking on any of the pages in the preview list selects that page in the report. b. Double-clicking a page scrolls that page into view and zooms to fit it on the screen. c. Right-clicking on a page gives the following options. i. Re-ordering pages by moving the clicked page to a different position in the list. ii. Toggle an Exclude page from printout setting to determine whether a page should be printed or not (for example, when a set of cross sections span 5 pages maybe only the first 3 pages are needed, exclude the last 2 to only print the pages you want). iii. Deleting the clicked page iv. Hiding the Page Preview window (there is an option on the View menu to show it again, or keyboard shortcut Ctrl+G to toggle it on and off). 3. Main page view This is the main view of you report, scrollable with the handle on the far right. This is where you design the report and make any adjustments.
Toolbar 1. Open template 2. Save layout 3. Print 4. Add page 5. Add text label 6. Add image (placeholder for a single image) 7. Add image group (placeholder exclusively for holding sets of cross sections) 8. Add annotation (fully implemented in 11.5 build 16) 9. Fill template from Image Gallery goes through the image gallery starting with the most recently added images and attempts to fill any empty placeholders in the report template. 10. Lock object Clicking this buttons toggles Locked mode for any selected objects. When an object is locked it cannot be moved or resized, avoiding accidental misalignment of images. You can still drag images to the object and change any properties. 11. Delete selected object(s) 12. Align left/right/top/bottom edges of all selected objects. 13. Make all selected objects the same width 14. Make all selected objects the same height 15. Make all selected objects the same width and height 16. Zoom in 17. Zoom out 18. Zoom to fit page on screen Menu Options File Menu 1. New Template - Create a new template from scratch 2. Open Template - Load an existing template 3. Save Template Save changes to the current template 4. Save template As Save the current template under a new name 5. Save Report to Dolphin 2D Saves the current report, including all images and patient information, into an image slot in 2D Dolphin Imaging. For multi-page reports a screenshot of each page is saved and can be cycled through by pressing F8 or clicking the cycle icon I the upper right corner. Right-click the image slot and select Open Report to open the report window from 2D Dolphin and get access to the report without needing to open Dolphin 3D. 6. Export Page to Image Save a snapshot of the currently selected page (or the only page in a single page report) to an image file on the hard drive. 7. Page Setup Open settings dialog for the currently selected page. Adjust paper size, background color, margins, page orientation and default printer.
8. Print Send report to printer. 9. Print to preset printer(s) Same as Print, except if you have selected a default printer for any of the pages then they will be sent there. This means that different pages in a single report can be sent to different printers. For example, xray images can be sent to one type of printer and photos and volume snapshots can be sent to another, while still maintaining the numbering of the pages. 10. Exit Closes the report window. Note that while still in Dolphin3D the report window isn t completely closed when selecting Exit or clicking the closeout X in the upper right corner. The report window is only minimized to the system tray so that no work is lost. When exiting Dolphin3D the report window is also closed and optionally the current report state is saved. Edit Menu 1. Undo Undo the last action, currently this applies to moving and sizing objects, changing the properties of an object, and adding/deleting an object. There is no limit to the number of undo steps kept in memory. 2. Redo Reverse the last undo operation. There is no limit to the number of redo operations kept in memory, but making changes to the report after performing the undo will in most cases clear the redo list to keep the report in a consistent state. 3. Copy page to clipboard Takes a snapshot of the currently selected page (or only page in a single page report) and store it on the Windows clipboard as an image. 4. Cut Deletes selected object(s) from the page and places them in memory for pasting in a different location. 5. Copy Copies selected object(s) in memory for pasting. 6. Paste Places Cut or Copied object(s) from memory onto the page. 7. Delete Delete selected object(s) from report. 8. Select All Selects all on-page objects in the report. 9. Enhance selected image(s) Brings up a dialog the allows the user to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma and sharpening of the selected image(s). The settings can be reverted to before-adjustment values by clicking Reset to Original \ 10. Load from Image Gallery Attempts to fill any image and image group objects currently not containing any images with suitable images from the Image Gallery, based on the image type assigned to the objects. View Menu 1. Margins Toggle Drawing Margin lines on the page(s) in green. 2. Printable Area Toggle drawing printable area on the page(s) in read. The printable area of a page is available if a default printer has been selected for that page on the page setup dialog. 3. Image Titles Show or hide title labels for all images. For a single image the image title can be turned on or off on the properties dialog. 4. Image Borders Show or hide a border around all images. For a single image the border can be turned on or off on the properties dialog or on the right-click context menu. 5. Image Gallery Show or hide the image gallery 6. Page Gallery Show or hide the page gallery.
7. Hide Labels toggle showing all the labels in a report (for example useful for hiding patient information for privacy reasons when creating a presentation) Insert Menu 1. Page Adds a page at the end of the report using the page settings of the previous page. 2. Label Changes the cursor to allow the user to place a label on a page. 3. Image - Changes the cursor to allow the user to place an image on a page. 4. Image Group - Changes the cursor to allow the user to place an image group on a page. 5. Group Displays a list of previously saved groups of objects to let the user choose one to insert in the report. 6. Pages from existing template(s) Load a report template and append it to the end of the current report. This allows the concatenation of multiple templates into a larger report. The dialog also contains a tab for Dolphin 2D layouts. Format Menu 1. Background Color Set the background color of the currently selected page. 2. Image corner rounding Togggles rounded corners on the images on or off. 3. Align a. Left - Align the left edges of selected objects b. Right Align the right edges of selected objects c. Top Align top edges of selected objects d. Bottom Align bottom edges of selected objects 4. Make Same Size a. Width Make selected items the same width b. Height Make selected items the same height c. Both Make selected items the same width and height 5. Center a. Horizontally Center selected object(s) horizontally on the page b. Vertically Center selected object(s) vertically on the page 6. Horizontal Spacing a. Make Equal Space selected objects evenly b. Increase Increase the space between selected objects c. Decrease Decrease the space between selected objects d. Remove Remove space between selected objects, aligning them flush with each other 7. Vertical Spacing a. Make Equal Space selected objects evenly b. Increase Increase the space between selected objects c. Decrease Decrease the space between selected objects d. Remove Remove space between selected objects, aligning them flush with each other 8. Order a. Bring to Front Place the selected object at the top of the Z-order, appearing in front of other objects
b. Send to Back Place the selected object at the bottom of the Z-order, appearing behind other objects 9. Snap To a. Margin i. Left Align selected objects along the left page margin ii. Right Align selected objects along the right page margin iii. Top Align selected objects along the top page margin iv. Bottom Align selected objects along the bottom page margin b. Printer Hard Margin (if a printer has been specified in the page setup dialog the hard margins will represent the boundaries of how close to the paper edge the specified printer can print, otherwise the hard margin will be at the paper edges) i. Left Align selected objects along the left hard margin ii. Right Align selected objects along the right hard margin iii. Top Align selected objects along the top hard margin iv. Bottom Align selected objects along the bottom hard margin Tools Menu 1. Link Labels to Image Establish a link between the selected labels and image so that data tokens such as image title, timepoint information, etc. gets read from that specific image when rendering the label text. 2. Unlink Labels From Image Break the linkage between labels and an image 3. Options Display the options dialog Image Gallery Menu 1. Show/Hide Toggles the Image Gallery on and off 2. Fill template from Gallery Attempt to fill any empty image objects with images of the correct type form the gallery. 3. Fill from Dolphin Timepoint Import all images from a specific timepoint (facials, intraorals, etc) into the gallery for use in the report. 4. Clear Clear all images from the Image Gallery Groups Menu 1. Group Objects - Group selected objects into a single object 2. Ungroup Object Split selected group into individual objects 3. Save Group As - Store a group of objects for later reuse 4. Manage Stored Groups Brings up a dialog to delete stored groups that are no longer needed 5. Insert Group Insert a previously stored group on the current page
Properties Dialogs Each type of object that can be placed on a report page has its own properties dialog where a number of settings can be adjusted for the specific object. Access the properties dialog either by double-clicking an object or by right-clicking and selecting the Properties option. Image Properties Layout Tab 1. Dimensions Show current position, height and width of the image object 2. Print 1:1 Toggle displaying the image 1:1 according to image resolution (images from Dolphin3D always contain correct resolution) 3. Show Border Toggle drawing a border line around the image 4. Border Color Set the color of the image border 5. Width Set the width of the image border 6. Show Image Title Display the title of the image, can be customized on the Image tab 7. Show image (not) to scale label Display a text describing whether the image is currently rendered 1:1 or not. Image Tab 1. Image Source a. Dolphin 2D Define which 2D image should be automatically loaded into this image object b. Dolphin 3D Define which type of 3D image should be automatically loaded into this image object c. From File Click the browse button to select any image file on the hard drive to be displayed (e.g. logo images) d. Image Title Enter a custom title to render instead of the title embedded in the image Ruler Tab 1. Left/Right/Top/Bottom Turn on or off a ruler along the indicated side of the image. 2. Settings Display the settings dialog for the corresponding ruler.
Ruler settings Dialog 1. Tickmarks section a. Define space between tick marks and lengths of tick marks b. Draw Inside The ruler gets drawn inside the boundaries of the image. c. Draw Outside The ruler gets drawn outside the boundaries of the image, which will cause the ruler not to hide any anatomy but it may render off the paper or be hidden by other objects. 2. Lines Section Define the color and width of the tick mark lines. 3. Numbering section Define how often along the ruler numbers should be drawn and set color, font and size of the numbers displayed. 4. Apply Settings to all rulers for this image Allows copying the current settings displayed to all four rulers on the image. This saves time adjusting multiple rulers on an image to look identical. 5. Make these settings the program default Save ruler settings and use as default when creating new image objects. Tracing Tab If the image displayed contains a ceph tracing, these settings allow control over how the tracing is rendered. 1. Analysis Change the displayed ceph analysis 2. Display Section Toggle showing the image behind the tracing, lines and curves in the analysis, teeth, and additional structures such as profile, mandible, maxilla, etc. 3. Tracing line width Set the width (in mm) of the lines used to draw the tracing. 4. Measurements Toggle showing measurement numbers and choose font and size of measurements.
Image Group Properties General Tab 1. Dimensions Shows the location, width, and height of the object. 2. 3D Image type Define the default type of cross sections contained in this object. Options are Left Cross Sections (TMJ) Right Cross Sections (TMJ) and Cross Sections (all other views). 3. Layout a. No Cropping Render as many cross sections as space allows with no cropping or overlapping. b. Define rows and columns Render specified number of rows and columns of cross sections. Depending on the size of the object and the cross sections contained this may result in spaces between slices or some cropping to take place. Not that when slices get cropped, holding down the shift key and click-dragging across the image will offset the slices within their display area to show the desired anatomy. c. Background Set the background color of the object and how far outside the object boundaries the background gets painted. Labels Tab 1. Image Number Display Set properties for displaying the slice index number a. Color b. Font and size c. Show a background color behind the slice number d. Position on the slice to render the number 2. Image Orientation Info Set properties for displaying labels indicating left/right or buccal/lingual orientation. a. Show or hide the labels b. Color c. Font and size d. Show background color behind the labels e. Position on the slice (top, middle, bottom)
Rulers Tab 1. Ruler settings for image groups are identical to the ones for Image objects with one exception. Radio buttons for Each Slice or Whole Group define if rulers are drawn only on along the sides of the image group object as a whole, or if each individual slice gets a separate set of rulers. Label Properties 1. Dimensions Displays location, width and height of the object 2. Alignment - Sets the alignment of the text within the label object 3. Font Sets font, size, color and style for the label object 4. Border Toggle drawing a border around the object and set the color and width of the border. 5. Background - Toggle drawing a background behind the label and set its color. 6. Edit text Control the text displayed in the label. Type text in the edit field, choose data items from the Data Field drop-down and insert into text using the Insert at Cursor button to access patient and image information. Preview window shows the resulting text for the currently selected patient. When loaded for a different patient, a template with a label containing data fields will of course display the patient information for the patient selected at the time.
Shape Properties 1. Shape Set which type of shape gets rendered (Line/Arrow/ Elipse/Rectangle). Note that changing an ellipse to a rectangle or a line to an arrow etc. does not require inserting a new object and deleting the old one. 2. Line Settings Control how the shape is drawn a. Color b. Line thickness c. Line style Solid / Dashed / Dash-Dot 3. Arrow Settings Apply only when the shape is in arrow drawing mode a. Arrow head width (in mm) b. Arrow head length (in mm) c. Arrow head is drawn filled or as an outline Context Menus Many of the settings for an object can be accessed by right-clicking the object and selecting from the context menu that appears. Image Context Menu 1. Locked Toggle locking the image from being moved and/or resized 2. Draw 1:1 Toggle drawing the image 1:1 3. Show whole image Zoom to show the whole image within the boundaries of the object (disables 1:1 drawing) 4. Show Border Toggle drawing a border around the image 5. Enhance open the enhance dialog to make adjustments to the image 6. 3D Image Type Designate a 3D image type for this object 7. 2D Image Type Designate a 2D image type for this object 8. Show cross sections ruler if the image is a panoramic or other image that contains information about the locations of cross sections, this toggles the drawing of the cross sections ruler on and off 9. Cross Section Ruler Properties Show the cross section ruler properties dialog, if the image contains information about cross sections 10. Delete Remove this image from the page 11. Properties Open the properties dialog for this image
Cross Sections Ruler Settings Dialog Provides settings for how the cross sections ruler is rendered onto the image 1. Show/Hide the ruler 2. Show/Hide the base line of the ruler 3. Draw only visible cross sections Draw tick marks only for those cross sections that are currently displayed in the associated image group objects 4. Flip vertically Flip the ruler 180 degrees vertically 5. Numbers rotated vertically Set if slice numbers are rotated 6. Position Adjust the position slider to control at what vertical location on the image the ruler is rendered 7. Ruler Color 8. Ruler line width (thickness) in mm 9. Spacing and length of small vs large tick marks 10. Font type, size and color 11. Group number indicator position When there are more than one group of cross sections the group number for the corresponding area of the ruler is displayed in parenthesis. The indicator position radio buttons control where in relation to the ruler this indicator is positioned. 12. Show background Fill the area behind the ruler with the specified color Image group Context Menu 1. Locked Toggle locking the image from being moved and/or resized 2. Split Split the contained cross sections across multiple pages a. Copy entire page layout Make each added page an exact copy of the current one, including the corresponding pano if any. b. Exclude non-group images Using this option, the program will try to eliminate all images not needed, including panoramic, while preserving logos and labels. Note that a label can be specifically set to be included or not during a split (see label context menu) 3. Pick starting slice Pick the first slice index displayed in the image group 4. Pick slices Brings up a dialog that allows cross sections to be included or excluded from rendering 5. Reverse Slice Order Toggle whether slices are displayed in ascending or descending order 6. Enhance Open the enhance dialog to make adjustments to how images are displayed 7. Image Type Set the type of cross sections contained by default in this object 8. Delete Remove the image group from the page 9. Properties Open the Image group properties dialog
Label Context Menu 1. Locked Toggle locking the image from being moved and/or resized 2. Can delete during group split If checked this label will not be included when copying page layouts during a split of cross sections 3. Horizontal Alignment Set the horizontal alignment of the text within the label 4. Vertical Alignment Set the vertical alignment of the text within the label 5. Delete Remove the label from the page 6. Properties Open the Label Properties dialog Shape Context Menu 1. Shape Set how the shape is drawn. Line/Arrow/Ellipse/Rectangle 2. Properties Open the Shape Properties dialog Page Context Menu Right-click any empty space on a page to access the context menu for the page 1. Background color Set the background color of the page 2. Paste If any objects have been copied to the clipboard, paste them onto this page 3. Add Label Add a label to this page 4. Add Image Add an image to this page 5. Add Image Group Add an image group to this page 6. Page Setup Open the Page Setup dialog