Instructions
1. On your desktop, right-click on an empty space. Go to “New” and click “Folder.” A folder will appear with highlighted blue text. Type in the patient's name and push “Enter” on your keyboard.
2. Open the patient’s scan. Select “File > Save in DICOM format > Sequence of Axial Images,” and select “Free Matrix.”
3. A pop-up will appear for the export location. Select the folder you just created on your desktop. Click “OK” to export images. Another pop-up will appear once DICOM has been exported. Click “Ok.”
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4. Go to the patient’s folder on the desktop and double-click to open it. Verify that the .dcm files were exported correctly; there should be several hundred files.
5. Go to the desktop, right-click on the patients folder, go to “Send to,” and select “Compressed (zipped) folder.” A duplicate folder will be made with either a zipper on it, or a blue “Z.”
If following a Dual Scan Protocol, please zip scans individually and label accordingly; i.e: “Patient Scan” and “Denture Scan.”
6. Upload compressed folder to Dandy Portal or email ImplantSurgery@meetdandy.com