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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. A simple example of a text search is to find all subjects associated with the value pancreas by typing pancreas in the Text Search box. You can also use the field:searchTerm technique; for example, Body Part Examined:pancreas. In this example, the colon interprets the DICOM field from the value. Since text search also recognizes DICOM codes, you can also search on 0018,0015:pancreas, which is the DICOM code for Body Part Examined. Additionally, you can use a wildcard search such as Body Part Examined:panc* to find all subjects associated with values beginning with panc, including pancreas, pancreatic duct, and pancreatic duct and bile duct systems.

Text search does have some restrictions. These are:

• The text string you use must have more than one character. The search won't return any values if the text string has only one character.
• Do not use a forward slash (/) in your text string.
• Do not use complex searches with AND or OR statements (text search supports Lucene syntax but only a single field can be searched at a time).

To perform a text search

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

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2. Select the number of search results per page you want the search will to return.
3. In the box at the top of the page, enter a text string .
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   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.of two characters or more.

4. Click Submit. Click Submit.
   The search results appear.
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The following table describes each item in the search results table.

Search Result	Description
Collection ID	Collection 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 Studies	Total number of studies for the subject
Total Series	Total number of image series for the subject
Image Modified	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 Image Modified to select the record and Image Modified 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 Image Modified. For more information, see Managing the Data Basket.