DICOM

DICOM Discussions

This page is a collection of thoughts and utilities for DICOM images, networking and processing.

Please keep rants about DICOM to a minimum...

Test PACS System

DCMTK provides a utility called dcmqrdb (formerly imagectn). It is fairly straightforward to configure.

Command line

dcmqrscp --config config.txt

Configuration file (config.txt), see dcmqrcnf.txt for more details. Edit the HostTable and the AETable. Connections to "practical" in the example below will be placed in the directory /path/to/archive/Archive. "aware" is the only AE that is allowed to put data in this PACS system.

 
 # Global section
 NetworkType	=	"tcp"
 NetworkTCPPort	=	4006
 MaxPDUSize	=	8192
 MaxAssociations	=	20
 Display		=	"yes"
 
 # Allowed hosts
 # Make sure there are no spaces between the ()'s!!!!
 HostTable BEGIN
 aware = (aware,aware,4006)
 HostTable END
 
 # Vender table ( Ignored )
 VendorTable BEGIN
 VendorTable END
 
 # Application Entry Table
 # ApplicationTitle StorageArea Access Quota Peers
 AETable BEGIN
 practical /path/to/archive/Archive RW (500,1G) ANY
 AETable END
 
 

Dan Blezek's Fetch DICOM Program

Provides GUI for Query/Retrieve and dicom directory sorting. Version 3.0 of FetchDICOM
Linux version of FetchDICOM -- requires dcmtk to be installed. Version 2.1 of FetchDICOM
Source for Version 2.x of FetchDICOM

(This version is for Windows, but the code could easily be made for linux, mac etc if needed).