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After you have added data to your cart and before you download it, you can view visualize it in a the thumbnail or and OHIF viewer viewers and view its DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) tags before you download it. 

To visualize a TCIA collection

You can visualize TCIA collections before you download them by launching an image animation when there are more than two images in the series. 

  1. View the details for a subject.
  2. Click the study date link for the collection you want to view.
    The image series associated with this study appear.
    Series detail for one study, showing the thumbnails, image animation, and DICOM buttons.Image Added
  3. In the row for an image series, clickOHIF Viewer tool buttonImage Added.
    The images in the series open in the Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF) Viewer.
    OHIF Viewer TCIA Alpha showing a toolbar, an overview image, and a large, main image window.Image Added
  4. Click Play button from the OHIF ViewerImage Addedto display the images in the series sequentially.

To visualize To view thumbnails

You can view visualize thumbnails of all images in the selected series and then open selected images for further analysis in another image system.

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DICOM tags form the header of an image series.

  1. View the details for a subject.
  2. Select a study and view its details.
  3. In the row for an image series, click DICOM button.
    The DICOM tags associated with the image series appear.
    DICOM Tags for Image

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