This article walks through opening your first study and orients you to the main regions of the viewer: the toolbar, the thumbnail panel, the viewport grid, and the patient info overlay.
Step 1: Open the study from your worklist
Sign in to your AlemHealth workspace, go to the worklist, and double-click a study row. The viewer opens in a new tab. If you have a direct study URL (from a shared link or email), pasting it in the browser also opens the viewer directly.
Step 2: Understand the toolbar
The toolbar sits at the top of the viewer. It groups tools by function: manipulation (Windowing, Pan, Zoom, Magnifier), measurements, layout, advanced visualization (MPR, 3D), export, print, and reports. Hovering any button shows its name and, where applicable, its keyboard shortcut.
Step 3: Use the thumbnail panel
The thumbnail panel shows every series in the study. By default, it sits on the left, but you can move it to the top, bottom, right, or into the Quick menu via the settings cog. Drag any thumbnail into a viewport to load that series.
Step 4: Read the patient info overlay
Each viewport shows patient and study metadata in its corners: patient ID, name, and DOB top-left; institution and study description top-right; series, instance and slice position bottom-left; image dimensions and W/L bottom-right. Use Info Labels on the toolbar to hide the overlay for screenshots.
Step 5: Use the Quick menu
Right-click anywhere in a viewport to open the Quick menu. It exposes the most-used tools without moving your cursor to the toolbar: windowing presets, layout, reset, print, export. Right-click actions are the fastest way to work without leaving the image.
Tips
- If the viewer opens with no study loaded, check that your worklist URL uses HTTPS and that pop-up blockers are disabled for your AlemHealth domain.
- On a slow connection, thumbnail panels can take a few seconds to populate. Studies preload in the background, so scrolling through the first series while others load is fine.
Related articles
- System requirements and logging in
- Working with layouts, panels and viewports
- DICOM Viewer keyboard shortcuts