Sending Images to RadPix via DICOM

Images can be sent to RadPix via DICOM with minimal configuration via wither a PACS or other application which can do a DICOM send, using the DICOM communication protocol.

PACS

RadPix can be set as a DICOM destination in a PACS, and images can be sent by users to RadPix. Please contact your PACS administrator for assistance.

PC-Based DICOM applications

Various Windows and MacOS applications can do a DICOM send to RadPix, including:

  • RSNA Filesender (Java, works on Windows, MacOS, Linux), Graphical interface
  • DCM4CHE ((Java, works on Windows, MacOS, Linux), Command Line interface
  • Osirix (MacOS)

Instructions are use of each is listed below.

Be certain that the images do NOT contain any patient information in the DICOM header or embedded in the images if your RadPix server is on the internet. If you are not sure, either review the images with a DICOM viewer, or use the Manual creation of a new case feature of Radpix, in which there is an opportunity to review the DICOM header and images before uploading them.

RSNA Filesender

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has created a free Open Source software tool for sending DICOM images, which can be easily set up to send DICOM images to the RadPix Teaching File System.

Java is required: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/downloads-list.html

Scroll down the internal box to select the appropriate version (Windows x64, MacOS x64, Linux x64)

Download and install Java.

Download Filesender from RSNA at http://mirc.rsna.org/download/FileSender-installer.jar.

Open the file.  

Install Filesender into c:\RSNA, which then makes a subfolder “Filesender” where all the files will be placed.      

Note: This program will NOT make an entry into the Windows Start Menu.  You will have to navigate to the install folder and then run FileSender.jar.    

Problem Loading? Note – if you just get a blank window that flashes when you do this, you will have to open a Command Box.  You can open a Command Box in several ways, including doing a search for “cmd” from the Start menu.  Be sure correct drive letter is used (i.e. “c:” in this case)  in the Command Box, enter these commands:  

cd {Your install folder} – example, cd \RSNA\FileSender
java -jar Filesender.jar

Courtesy mirc.rsna.org

DICOM destination field

  • Enter your server IP address and DICOM receiver port from the RadPix Server (default 1090).
  • Source and Destination are the AETitles of the sending and receiving devices, which can be left as Source and Destination.

dicom://Source:Destination@ServerIP:1090

dicom://MyRadPix:Neuroradiology@{MyMIRCServerIPAddress}:1090

If RadPix is configured to use the Calling AETitle to automatically apply subspecialty tag to a draft case, the above value would set the subspecialty for all cases to “Neuroradiology” (link).

Zip files that contain DICOM files can also be uploaded with this technique.

See highlighted yellow areas in image above.

  1. Click the button to the left of the DICOM destination (should be filled in)
  2. Check the box “Include subdirectories” in bottom left corner
  3. Just to the right of the checkbox, there is another box that by default is “dcm”.  Click it and change it to *.
  4. Navigate in left panel to directory of DICOM images.
  5. Click send button in bottom right corner.

Images will now be placed into draft cases. Click Draft Cases to only show Draft Cases.

1 Draft Case in the system.

DCM4CHE

DCM4CHE is Java-based application which can be downloaded from

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dcm4che/files/dcm4che3/

Java is required: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/downloads-list.html

Scroll down in the internal box to select the appropriate version (Windows x64, MacOS x64, Linux x64).

Windows

The Windows version can be installed by opening the .zip file and extracting it to your PC, for instance to the main C:\

For instance, C:\dcm4che-5.25.1, where “5.25.1” is the version number.

You will use the DCM4CHE storescu application, which will be stored in C:\dcm4che-5.25.1\bin.

Click Windows Start menu and type

cmd

Command Prompt window appears

Change directory to DCM4CHE programs, located in the bin directory.

cd c:\dcm4che-5.25.1\bin

May need to change the version number shown above (5.25.1) to correct version .

Type in storescu and parameters

storescu -b AETitle -c AETitle@YourServer.org:1090 c:\sourceimages

AETitle = Provided by PACS admin. (Can use RadPix as default)

YourServer.org = RadPix server

1090 = port number

c:\sourceimages = folder name (add quotes around if spaces in folder name)

If source directory name has spaces, enclose directory name in quotation marks.

Press Enter / Return and images will be sent to the RadPix server.

Osirix

To be added soon!