Downloading anonymized studies (without storing in Orthanc)

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I see the documentation regarding downloading an instance with tags anonymized. The documentation is clear that happens “without storing the anonymized DICOM instance into Orthanc.”

When this is done at the patient, study, or series level, there are new data generated and stored in Orthanc.

https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/anonymization.html#anonymization-of-patients-studies-or-series

Question 1: is there any existing way to create a download of an entire study anonymized, WITHOUT storing new data into Orthanc?

Similar to studies/{id}/archive > Study.zip

https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/rest.html#downloading-studies

I would like to generated anonymized DICOM files (of an entire study) for sharing to demonstrate errors / issues I find with Orthanc. Would also like to avoid another custom script to accomplish if it already exists.

Question 2: How are such large file sets shared to the developers (“sample DICOM files”)?

https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/support.html#discussing-a-minimal-working-example

Thank you.

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Hi Ben,

Q1: no, right now, there’s no ability to download an anonymized study without storing it in Orthanc. But, if you use /studies/…/anonymize, a new study is created in Orthanc, you can then download it and then delete it.

Q2: It’s up to you and your own data policy and available tools. Usually, users upload the file on a server and send us a download link + password if required.

HTH,

Alain.