Series and thumbnails

Thumbnail panel

• The right-hand (or side-docked) thumbnail and metadata panel shows series in the current study. Thumbnails are the fastest way to re-target a viewport without hunting in a long DICOM list.

Use case: a CT with dozens of recon series; scroll the thumbnail rail to find the 1 mm lung kernel quickly.

Use case: an MR with T1 / T2 / FLAIR—pick two series, assign them to a 2x2 (see Viewports and layouts) using drag/drop or the assignment behavior your build supports.

Series cards and metadata

• Cards (or list rows) show series description, modality, date/time, and image count (exact fields depend on DICOM and parser output).
• Hover for extra metadata when offered (series number, body part, scan options).

Use case: QC the technologist’s series naming before you spend time in full resolution—if wrong laterality is in the description, stop and log it early.

Assigning a series to a viewport

• Click a thumbnail to assign to the active viewport (or drag to a specific cell if the UI version supports it).
• If a viewport already shows a series, replacing it restarts the stack index at a sensible default; you may need to re-sync for comparisons.

Use case: after loading current in left and prior in right, the current is faster—assign thicker localizer in a third small pane for orientation if your layout has three cells.

Thumbnails and performance

• Very large studies may show lazy thumbnails; if a tile is blank momentarily, wait for decode rather than double-assign a series.

Related

• Navigation and cine — after assignment, scroll in the right pane.
• Measurements and annotations — only measure after the expected series is in the active viewport.