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Looking for goodsolid (partially automated?) DICOM CD importer
Hi all,
I’m looking for a good/solid and possibly automated (as much as possible) DICOM CD importer. Anybody has one they’d recommend or even heard second-hand that’s good?
Thanks,
-Anibal -
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What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
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What Im looking for is this, at least conceptually:
[ol][*]A robot that you can stack as many CDs as you want youll stack them all face up, say[*]The robot will take each CD and process it automatically, meaning itll put it in a tray and perform the read one after the other[*]Then, youll have a software component that will show you all CDs that have been uploaded to a temporary storage. Here youll need to reconcile the MRN. The CDs will most likely come with a different MRN, so you need to modify the MRN to match the one thats in your PACS. The tool should allow you to [b][u]easily[/u][/b] do this by querying your PACS by MRN and showing the best matches.[*]The tool should then be configured to create automatically acc#s and send the studies to the a DICOM SCP(s) [/ol]-
Hardware – NIMBIE autoloaders are probably the best (only?) way to go. Up to 100 discs at a time, copied to whatever location you want on the network. We have used the heck out of ours for years and it has not missed a beat.
Software – You’re going to PAY to get anything close to what you are asking. We use PACS Scan, it’s basic, costs $1000+ per license, but works well. You can query your PACS based on name and DOB and then upload to a PID. Our DICOM Manager auto generates an accession as it sends to our PACS. But it feels like a ridiculous price for what it does.-
Not inexpensive, but PACSGear is very reliable and can be well automated
We’ve used this for many years
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