Developing Dicom Apps: How to obtain an org root UID for free
If you have ever developed a DICOM-related application you may have at some point wondered how to obtain an org root UID. An org root UID is necessary for generating certain DICOM tags, such as studyUID, seriesUID, SOPInstanceUID, etc, in…

Dcm4chee: Configuring automated backups to the cloud (or anywhere really)
In a production PACS, a common setup is to back up studies either in real-time or on a periodic basis (ie: nightly) to a more secure, longer-term storage location (aka “nearline” storage). The studies will typically persist on the local…
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…

Dcm4chee: PACS Synchronization via Dicom Forwarding
Suppose you need to synchronize a secondary PACS with that of a primary one running dcm4chee. Perhaps this is part of a simple fault-tolerant networking solution with the secondary PACS acting as a hot-backup, or perhaps you have some other…
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