Exporting Images to a Folder or an Email

Prerequisite:

If you are in the Patient Browser standalone mode, select a patient in the Patient List. All image thumbnails for the selected patient are displayed in the Patient History.
From your DPMS, launch CS Imaging.

The current patient's name is displayed in the title bar in CS Imaging.

To export images, follow these steps:

Press Ctrl + click to select the images that you want to export.
Do one of the following in the Patient Browser or Dashboard in the Export icon group: To send the images in an email, select . The Email Export window is displayed.

To save the image in a folder, select . In the Save As window, for the Destination Folder, click to browse to a folder.

In the Image Viewing Workspace or Darkroom mode, in the Share toolbar:
To send the image in an email, click . The email export window is displayed.

To save the image in a folder, select . In the Save As window, for the Destination Folder, click to browse to a folder.

Select from the following drop-down lists based on the format type below: Image type

Keep current format

CS Imaging file format with all processing information preserved.

Important: Files saved in this format can only be used in CS Imaging version 8. If you are going to export this to people who do not have access to CS Imaging version 8, we recommend that you select another image type.

For Presentation

A read-only format that can be used in other DICOM-compliant applications.

BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG

Standard graphics formats.

Important: These formats do not provide accurate measurement capability and should not be used for diagnostic purposes.

Model type

Keep current format

A folder with a DICOM file and analysis, if any.

Important: Files saved in this format can only be used in Carestream Dental software. If you are going to export this to people who do not have access to Carestream Dental software, we recommend that you select another image type.

STL, PLY

Standard 3D formats.

Models acquired by 3D intraoral scanner require Premium access to unlock this functionality.

4. If you are in the Save As or Send by e-mail window, you can also select one or more of the following options.

Compress items

In the folder you select, a zip file is created that contains all the exported image files.

You need to specify a name for the zip file.

Include drawings and annotations

Select to save the image with any drawings, measurements, or other overlaid elements visible.

If the image is saved as “Keep current format,” BMP, JPEG, TIFF, or PNG formats, annotations are also saved. This does not apply to Model types.

Show in folder

(This option is not available when sending by email.) Select to open a Windows Explorer window that shows the contents of the folder in which your exported images were saved.

Do one of the following:

If you are sending an image in an email, click Send by e-mail items. A new email is created in your default email application with the exported image or images attached to the email.

If you are saving to a folder, click Save items.

Note: This button is grayed out until you specify an export folder.