MF DIGITAL NeoLogica DICOMBurner, User Manual

Page 1: ...DICOMBurner version 3 User Manual...

Page 2: ...e level search 18 5 5 4 Burn files step 19 5 6 BURN CUSTOM FROM DICOM DEVICE 20 5 6 1 DICOM Device Selection 20 5 6 2 Study level search 21 5 6 3 Series level search 22 5 6 4 Instance level search 23...

Page 3: ...earch 45 10 2 2 Series level search 46 10 2 3 Instance level search 47 10 2 4 Restore files step 48 11 VIEWING INFORMATION 49 11 1 VIEW LOG DIALOG BOX 49 12 DICOMBURNER CONFIGURATION 50 12 1 DICOM CON...

Page 4: ...DICOMBurner User Manual DB UM 3 Rev B 4...

Page 5: ...Inch GUI Graphical User Interface ICM Integrated Color Management ID Identifier JPEG Joint Picture Experts Group LAN Local Area Network PC Personal Computer PDU Protocol Data Unit PNG Portable Networ...

Page 6: ...nal film hard copies of the exams Also the produced media can be used to exchange DICOM files between non connected PACS or DICOM workstations The images stored on the CDs DVDs can be directly viewed...

Page 7: ...DVD Production Unit such as Rimage MFDigital or Primera to automate the CD DVD burning and to print the CD DVD surface in order to label it DICOMBurner is a Windows based server application running i...

Page 8: ...Windows When you start the application a balloon tooltip for the system tray icon is displayed for some seconds DICOMBurner s icon in the system tray of Windows By right clicking on the icon the DICO...

Page 9: ...started or stopped The connection server must be started if client connections and associations from Storage SCU have to be accepted When the connection server is started it is impossible to modify t...

Page 10: ...MBurner Aborted the number of aborted DICOM associations since the application startup An association may be aborted by both the SCP and the SCU when an abnormal condition occurs unexpected PDU DICOM...

Page 11: ...mages into a local folder choosing a format among DICOM BMP TIFF PNG and JPEG In addition it s possible to export to a DICOM device DICOM Store SCU Delete opens a GUI wizard allowing the selection of...

Page 12: ...can burn them by just one mouse click The Burning dialog box appears when you press the Burn button on the main toolbar or on the correspondent menu item from the DICOMBurner tray pop up menu There ex...

Page 13: ...guration tab Pressing the Burn Patients button will start the actual CD or DVD writing procedure Otherwise by pressing the Delete Patients button you can delete the selected patient and its instances...

Page 14: ...CD or DVD per patient by selecting all the listed patients Otherwise by a local burner only one single patient can be burnt 5 3 Burn last study By selecting the Burn last study option you are able to...

Page 15: ...ner displays a dialog box showing the list of non burnt instances Then you can choose the DICOM files you want to burn and in addition you can change the CD DVD options with respect to the default one...

Page 16: ...to patient and study levels The list of studies can be filtered by specifying some filtering options or search criteria in particular the patient identification filters the acceptable range of birth...

Page 17: ...ltered by specifying some filtering options or search criteria in particular you can set the acceptable range of series dates and the producing modalities By pressing the Filter button you obtain the...

Page 18: ...eptable range of acquisition dates and the acceptable range of store dates By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of instances satisfying the set conditions At this level if you select an i...

Page 19: ...t one in the wizard procedure a list of the files that will be burnt on the CD DVD is displayed If you select a file by clicking with the mouse over the corresponding row of the Files List you obtain...

Page 20: ...gh a hierarchical Study Series Instance selection of the DICOM files to burn onto CD or DVD The DICOM files will be selected by sending DICOM query commands to a pre selected DICOM device 5 6 1 DICOM...

Page 21: ...ates the patient sex and the acceptable range of study dates By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of studies satisfying the set conditions Then you can select all studies you are interest...

Page 22: ...pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of series satisfying the set conditions Then you can select all series you are interested in by using the mouse and multiple file selection technique Th...

Page 23: ...tes and the acceptable range of store dates By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of instances satisfying the set conditions Then you can select all instances you are interested in by usin...

Page 24: ...n enter the importing feature There exist two kinds of importing procedures 1 Import from disk 2 Import from DICOM device These two options are accessible by clicking the small down arrow located next...

Page 25: ...ere to search for valid DICOM instances The actual import procedure starts when you press the OK button 6 2 Import from DICOM device DICOMBurner acts as a DICOM Query Retrieve SCU allowing populating...

Page 26: ...ilters the acceptable range of birth dates the patient sex and the acceptable range of study dates By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of studies satisfying the set conditions Then you c...

Page 27: ...dates and the producing modalities By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of series satisfying the set conditions Then you can select all series you are interested in by using the mouse an...

Page 28: ...the acceptable range of acquisition dates and the acceptable range of store dates By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of instances satisfying the set conditions Then you can select all i...

Page 29: ...you through a hierarchical Study Series Instance selection of the images to be exported 7 1 1 Study level search The study level step of the wizard procedure allows you to select the studies containi...

Page 30: ...alities By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of series satisfying the set conditions Then you can select all series you are interested in by using the mouse and multiple file selection te...

Page 31: ...d the acceptable range of store dates By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of instances satisfying the set conditions At this level if you select an instance by clicking with the mouse ov...

Page 32: ...or the DICOM format you can check the DICOMDIR generation and select the Transfer Syntax of the output DICOM files The JPEG format allows you the output quality selection DICOMBurner will create an ou...

Page 33: ...related to patient and study levels The list of studies can be filtered by specifying some filtering options or search criteria in particular the patient identification filters the acceptable range o...

Page 34: ...modalities By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of series satisfying the set conditions Then you can select all series you are interested in by using the mouse and multiple file selectio...

Page 35: ...nd the acceptable range of store dates By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of instances satisfying the set conditions At this level if you select an instance by clicking with the mouse o...

Page 36: ...ner shows a GUI wizard guiding you through a hierarchical Study Series Instance selection of the DICOM files to be deleted 8 1 Study level search The study level step of the wizard procedure allows yo...

Page 37: ...an proceed to the next step by pressing the Next button As a shortcut you can start the deleting procedure of the selected studies without reaching the last wizard step by pressing the Delete Studies...

Page 38: ...ressing the Delete Series button 8 3 Instance level search The instance level step of the wizard procedure allows you to select the DICOM files instances you want to delete from the local database The...

Page 39: ...n proceed to the next step by pressing the Next button As a shortcut you can start the deleting procedure of the selected instances without reaching the last wizard step by pressing the Delete Instanc...

Page 40: ...COMBurner allows backing up the database or creating backup CDs or DVDs containing DICOM files The DICOM files to be archived on CD or DVD can be selected by the user There exist four kinds of backup...

Page 41: ...r you need to perform periodically backup of both database and DICOM files as explained in the next sections To start the database backup procedure you have to select the Backup database popup menu op...

Page 42: ...ar to the following one The list of instances can be filtered by specifying some filtering options or search criteria in particular you can set the store dates range representing the week you want to...

Page 43: ...backup status backed up or not of the instances By pressing the Filter button you obtain the list of instances satisfying the set conditions If you select an instance by clicking with the mouse over...

Page 44: ...files and backup CDs or DVDs containing DICOM files There exist two kinds of restore procedures 1 Restore database 2 Restore images These two options are accessible by clicking the small down arrow lo...

Page 45: ...ckup file By pressing the Open button the procedure will start Important note this functionality shouldn t be started if a system disaster doesn t happen else you can loss all of the DICOM files store...

Page 46: ...step by pressing the Restore Studies button 10 2 2 Series level search The series level step of the wizard procedure allows you to select the series containing the DICOM files you want to restore in t...

Page 47: ...st of instances can be filtered by specifying some filtering options or search criteria in particular you can set the acceptable range of acquisition dates the acceptable range of store dates and the...

Page 48: ...listed restore solution the list of media code identifying the CDs or DVDs that will be need is displayed You have to select your favorite restore solution and the CD DVD unit name to be used for the...

Page 49: ...er and of the actions performed A List control is displayed on the dialog each row of the list represents a logged event Each event is defined by the following information Event ID a unique number tha...

Page 50: ...ner Configuration In order to enter the DICOMBurner Configuration section you must stop the connection server by pressing the Stop button on the main toolbar and press the Settings button on the main...

Page 51: ...mum PDU length in bytes accepted by DICOMBurner This value refers to the maximum length of the variable field of the P DATA TF PDUs that will be sent by the association requestor o AE Title the Applic...

Page 52: ...et a remote device as default for the available DICOM device operations By pressing the Add or Modify button DICOMBurner shows a dialog similar to the following one This dialog allows setting the foll...

Page 53: ...ce a long log output on the View Log window may consume a lot of memory In any case DICOMBurner periodically performs an automatic truncation of the log on window o Enable Verbose Mode enables disable...

Page 54: ...le to perform periodic checks on the current storage space and thresholds used by its internal DICOM files database Based on user defined rules DICOMBurner can automatically delete the oldest files ac...

Page 55: ...actual storage date will be deleted until the storage space falls below the second specified threshold Storage Space After Purge Maximum File Storage Space Threshold a value representing the maximum n...

Page 56: ...files For any configured unit you can set the default parameters used during the burning process for production or backup The button on the dialog allows you to add a new burner configuration modify...

Page 57: ...er such as Rimage MFDigital and Primera Since some parameters are specific of a certain kind of burner we ll discuss any single configuration wizard in the following sections 12 6Local Burner Configur...

Page 58: ...Media Storage Application Profile as defined by DICOM PS 3 11 o Eject CD DVD at the end of the process a flag specifying if the media has to be ejected at the end of the burning process o Close CD DV...

Page 59: ...viewer on the CD DVD a flag specifying if a DICOM Viewer has to be included into CD DVD during the burning process o LocalEye DICOM Viewer is a DICOM Viewer developed by NeoLogica and provided with t...

Page 60: ...option then you can configure it for production or backup purposes At the first step of the GUI wizard you have to select Rimage Then you can specify the following options Unit Type o Rimage specifies...

Page 61: ...mage Unit o Server Host Name specifies the name of the server managing the Rimage Unit o Server Host Port specifies the port of the server managing the Rimage Unit o Server Password specifies the pass...

Page 62: ...end of the process a flag specifying if the media has to be closed no more burnable at the end of the burning process o Delete burnt backed up files from database at the end of the process a flag spe...

Page 63: ...ecifying if a DICOM Viewer has to be included into CD DVD during the burning process o LocalEye DICOM Viewer is a DICOM Viewer developed by NeoLogica and provided with the DICOMBurner application pack...

Page 64: ...hname of the text file containing the dynamic field names a TXT file containing the tab separated placeholders of every text field to be dynamically replaced by DICOMBurner at running time before prin...

Page 65: ...Custom DICOM Field Search dialog Note if at the first step of the wizard you set Rimage for Backup usage then the label selection step allows you to select a backup label instead of a production one...

Page 66: ...option then you can configure it for production or backup purposes At the first step of the GUI wizard you have to select Primera Then you can specify the following options Unit Type o Primera specifi...

Page 67: ...e at the end of the burning process o Delete burnt backed up files from database at the end of the process a flag specifying if the files copied to CD or DVD have to be deleted from the local database...

Page 68: ...ecifying if a DICOM Viewer has to be included into CD DVD during the burning process o LocalEye DICOM Viewer is a DICOM Viewer developed by NeoLogica and provided with the DICOMBurner application pack...

Page 69: ...hname of the text file containing the dynamic field names a TXT file containing the comma separated placeholders of every text field to be dynamically replaced by DICOMBurner at running time before pr...

Page 70: ...Custom DICOM Field Search dialog Note if at the first step of the wizard you set Primera for Backup usage then the label selection step allows you to select a backup label instead of a production one...

Page 71: ...option then you can configure it for production or backup purposes At the first step of the GUI wizard you have to select MFDigital Then you can specify the following options Unit Type o MFDigital spe...

Page 72: ...second step of the GUI wizard where you can specify the following options Networking specifies the networking parameters used to connect DICOMBurner to the MFDigital Unit o Server User Name specifies...

Page 73: ...up files from database at the end of the process a flag specifying if the files copied to CD or DVD have to be deleted from the local database at the end of the burning process Burning Parameters o W...

Page 74: ...n allows an easy selection of the pathname If the viewer is made of a set of files you have to check Include all files contained into the application folder Note if at the first step of the wizard you...

Page 75: ...eld and a Dynamic Field of the dropdown containing basic DICOM fields and Custom ones To set a Custom DICOM Field you have to select the Custom item into the dropdown and then the dialog below appears...

Page 76: ...ck the Enable Automatic CD DVD Production o Production unit specifies the unit to be used as default for automatic production CD DVD default unit name the name of the default unit for automatic produc...

Page 77: ...lable units To modify or remove a selected rule the buttons Modify and Remove are provided Since the rules are applied following a top down order the buttons Move Up and Move Down enable you to move t...

Page 78: ...on of each configuration parameter available in this dialog box is now provided Automatic Backup Options allows to enable disable and set parameter related to the automatic backup of DICOM files stora...

Page 79: ...re the database backup file has to be stored and when the process will start Destination folder by pressing the Browse button a folder dialog appears allowing the user to specify the folder where the...

Page 80: ...ation dialog box The Registration Administration dialog box appears when the DICOMBurner user selects the Registration Administration menu item from the DICOMBurner tray pop up menu It shows the kind...

Page 81: ...the current copy of DICOMBurner or change the current registration keys This operation is protected by an administration password The default administration password for DICOMBurner is db_2005 The ad...

Page 82: ...otect the DICOMBurner configuration section with the administration password if the Request admin password for configuration option is enabled then the user will be asked for the administration passwo...