Documenting Full Body Photography Sessions

A full body photography session is one systematic photographic pass over a patient on one date, captured against a standard set of poses. Sessions are kept on the Full Body Photography page, opened from Full Body in the patient navigation. Each session records which poses were photographed, which were skipped and why, and the lesions documented on its photographs.

The Full Body Photography Page

The page opens on the Photography Sessions card, which shows the number of sessions and the latest date (for example "5 sessions, latest Apr 21, 2026") and carries Start Session. When the account's consent enforcement level is Required, Start Session is available once the patient's consent is recorded; see Clinical Image Consent.

Below it, each session appears as a card, most recent first, with its title, date, coverage (for example "18 of 21 poses"), lesion and image counts, and a mosaic of pose thumbnails that Show all expands. The main control on each card reads Start Capture while the session is empty and Review Session once anything is recorded. View Session Details opens the Session Details drawer. Session cards also appear in the patient's Image Pool.

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The Session Workspace

A session opens full screen. The header switches between three modes, Capture, Review, and Compare, and carries the session switcher: the chevrons step to the older or newer session, and the pill shows the session date with "Latest" or the session's position, such as "2 of 4". Session details, in the header, opens the Session Details drawer.

Sessions use the built-in "Full body default" pose set: 21 poses in five regions (Head and Neck, Trunk, Upper Limbs, Lower Limbs, and Anogenital), one of them optional. Each pose has a label and a short framing hint.

Capture a Session

Start Session creates a session dated today, titled "Full body documentation", and opens it in Capture. The title and date can be changed in Session Details.

The Capture checklist groups the poses by region under a coverage counter ("0 of 21 poses") and the reminder that left and right are the patient's left and right. Each pose row shows its label, an Optional tag where it applies, and its framing hint, with actions that follow its state:

• Pending: Upload, From pool, and Skip. In Atlas Companion, a pose photographed in a prior session also offers Capture, which shows the prior photograph as an alignment overlay.
• Captured: Mark lesions, which opens Review on that pose, along with Upload and From pool.
• Skipped: Upload, From pool, and Remove skip.

A photograph uploaded or dropped onto a pose row is assigned to that pose, and the coverage counter advances.

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Skip a Pose

Skip opens the Skip Pose dialog. Selecting a preset records the skip at once:

• Patient declined
• Area not accessible
• Covered by dressing or clothing
• Not clinically indicated
• Deferred to a follow-up visit

Other reason takes free text. The pose then reads, for example, "Skipped: Patient declined" in Capture, in Review, and in the exported reports. Coverage counts a pose once it has a photograph or a recorded skip. Uploading onto a skipped pose clears the skip.

Assign Images Later

For a batch of photographs, drop them on the tray at the top of the checklist, labeled "Drop images here to assign them to poses later". Each waiting image offers Assign, which opens the Assign to Pose picker with an Overview or Dermoscopy role choice, and Leave in pool for an image that does not belong to a pose.

Review a Session

Review reads the session pose by pose, in three panels:

• Poses, on the left, lists the poses by region. Each row shows a status dot for captured, pending, or skipped, and a count of the lesions marked on that pose. A pending row offers a Capture link; a skipped row shows its reason. The coverage sits at the foot of the panel.
• The canvas, in the center, shows the selected pose's overview photograph, with the Mark tool for lesion marks and the Image Filter control. An image filter stays active as other poses are selected.
• Lesions and Lesion Details, on the right, hold the patient's lesion records. Creating, linking, and deleting lesions is covered in Documenting Lesions.

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Compare Sessions

Compare places a patient's sessions side by side, oldest on the left. Up to four sessions can be compared, and at least one is always selected.

• Overviews steps through the poses and shows the same pose from each selected session.
• Lesions shows one lesion's dermoscopy from each selected session.
• Split and Overlay choose the layout, the same comparison view used elsewhere in Atlas, including automatic alignment.

Each photograph keeps its own lesion marks; marks from one visit are not carried onto another visit's photograph. Where a selected session lacks the pose or the lesion's dermoscopy, the pane says so.

Compare is view only: comparisons made here are not saved. To keep a comparison in the record, save it on an entry; see Comparing Images in Split and Overlay Views.

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Session Details, Reports, and Deletion

The Session Details drawer holds the session's Title, Session date, and Session notes. Edits save as they are made.

Two PDF reports cover full body photography. Only Clinician accounts can export them.

• Export Session, in Session Details, produces a report of one session: its coverage, skipped poses with their reasons, notes, and the lesions documented in it.
• Export Full Body, in the options menu of the Full Body Photography page or the Patient Details page, produces a report of every session and the patient's lesion records.

See Generating PDF Reports for the export options and report contents.

Delete Session, at the foot of Session Details, offers two choices. Only Clinician accounts can delete a session.

• Remove session only: the session is removed, and its zones stay in the Image Pool with their images.
• Delete session and contents: the session, its zones, and their images are deleted. Images used in an entry are kept.

The confirmation asks for DELETE SESSION. Until the retention period ends, a Clinician account can restore the session from the Deleted Items drawer on the Patient Details page. Where the practice deletes records permanently, the confirmation asks for PERMANENTLY DELETE SESSION instead, and nothing can be recovered. See Recovering Deleted Records.

Activity Log

Full body work is recorded in the patient's activity log. In the Patient Activity Logs drawer, the Full Body option of the Resource filter shows the session and lesion history; see Audit Logging Configuration.

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Related Resources

• Documenting Lesions for lesion records on the overview photographs
• Organizing Images with Zones for grouping a visit's photographs by body area
• Generating PDF Reports for a report of a full body session