# DICOM-RT support status

**URL:** https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/dicom-rt-support-status/634
**Category:** Google Groups archive
**Created:** [March 13, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/dicom-rt-support-status/634 "2017-03-13T00:53:39Z")
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### Author: ![Wei\_Xiong](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Wei\_Xiong](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/Wei_Xiong)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/dicom-rt-support-status/634/1 "2017-03-13T00:53:39Z")

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Hi all,

I would like to check the status of DICOM-RT support in Orthanc. I noticed there is dicom-rt branch in bitbucket but it was not updated after 2014.

[https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/branch/dicom-rt](https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/branch/dicom-rt)

Is DICOM-RT supported in main codebase of Orthanc?

Thanks,  
Mengda

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### Author: ![Alain\_Mazy3](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Alain\_Mazy3](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/Alain_Mazy3)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/dicom-rt-support-status/634/2 "2017-03-13T08:32:05Z")

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Hi,

You may actually user Orthanc to store and retrieve Dicom-RT files as any other DICOM files (Orthanc actually does not care about the DICOM file content).

The intention of the DICOM-RT branch was to provide additional services (new API routes) to access specific components of i.e RT-Struct, RT-Plan …

There are no plans to continue the development of this branch in the near future. However, all Dicom RT content may be retrieved as JSON files as usual ([http://book.orthanc-server.com/users/rest.html#accessing-the-dicom-fields-of-an-instance-as-a-json-file](http://book.orthanc-server.com/users/rest.html#accessing-the-dicom-fields-of-an-instance-as-a-json-file)).

Best regards,

Alain

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### Author: ![jodogne](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/user_avatar/discourse.orthanc-server.org/jodogne/32/1511_2.png) [@jodogne](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/jodogne)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/dicom-rt-support-status/634/3 "2017-03-31T10:12:48Z")

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Dear Mengda,

You should find an interest in the following answer in another post of this forum:  
[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/q5bMm71HAm0/ghJMiXrNAwAJ](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/q5bMm71HAm0/ghJMiXrNAwAJ)

In a nutshell, the support of RT-STRUCT and RT-DOSE has been migrated to the Stone of Orthanc project:  
[http://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=stone](http://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=stone)

Regards,  
Sébastien-