DICOM Quickie: Copying a study from one PACS to another using dcmqr (query / retrieve)
Sending a dicom study from one PACS to another is quite simple using dcmqr from the dcm4che toolkit (I am currently using v2):
dcmqr -highprior $FROM_PACS_AET@$FROM_PACS_HOST:$FROM_PACS_PORT -cmove $TO_PACS_AET \ -L $TO_PACS_AET \ -qStudyInstanceUID="$STUDY_UID"
It implements a dicom query (here we are querying by study) and retrieve operation (where we are ‘retrieving’ the study to another PACS).
Without the bash variables it might look something like this:
dcmqr -highprior DCM4CHEE@localhost:11112 -cmove PACS2 \ -L PACS2 \ -qStudyInstanceUID="123123123.123123123123"
A few notes:
- The -cmove flag says to retrieve the objects to a specified move destiniation, in this case $TO_PACS_AET or PACS2. The AET referenced here should be registered with your source PACS so it knows which IP / port it corresponds to.
- The -highprior flag is optional, letting the PACS know that you consider this to be a higher priority request.
- The -q flag could have been followed by any other DICOM tag value / name. ie: -qPatientName, etc. We chose StudyInstanceUID somewhat arbitrarily (apart from its general usefulness). See the dcmqr man page for more details.
Note: Tested using the dcm4che toolkit v2.0.29.
is it possible to move via accession number?