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A text search allows for searching of many of the database text fields, DICOM image tag data, and annotation files that are not available in the normal Simple and Advanced searches. For example, you can find all patients associated with the term glioma, as shown below.

To perform a text search

  1. On the NBIA home page, click Text Search or Search Images > Text Search.
    The Text Search page appears.

    empty text search fields

  2. Select the number of search results per page the search will return.
  3. In the box at the top of the page, enter a text string.
    Use Lucene conventions Exit Disclaimer logo for wildcards. Do not use colons as NBIA automatically filters them from the criteria. Lucene designates colons as fields. Since the text search searches all fields, colons are not necessary.
  4. Click Submit.
    The search results appear.
    search results from search term of brain

    Navigation Tips

    • Click the down arrow next to a column title to sort the column by that item.
    • Click the arrows at the bottom of the table to display the first, previous, next, or last page of results.
    • Click the page number links to move to a specific page of results.

    The following table describes each item in the search results table.

    Search ResultDescription
    Collection IDCollection identifier
    Subject ID

    Click the Subject ID to view all study images for this subject in a DICOM web viewer, a single series' thumbnails, or the DICOM header for the first image in the series. See Search Results (Studies for Subject).

    Hit

    The field in the study where the text string you entered as your search criteria appears.

    Total StudiesTotal number of studies for the subject
    Total SeriesTotal number of image series for the subject
    basket

    Add the images for a single series or the entire study to your data basket. When you have marked a record for addition to the data basket, it is highlighted in yellow.

    • Click add to data basket to select the record and remove from basket to clear it.
    • To mark all records in the search results as records you want to add to your data basket, click the basket icon in the column header or click add found to basket.

    For more information, see Managing the Data Basket.

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