Hello all,
I have an issue with patient names. Every patient name comes with the ^ character instead of a space and it makes looking up names difficult. If I want to search for a patient the whole name with the ^ character needs to be entered, not just first or last. I will attach a snippet to clarify what I am talking about. A quick example would be if I had a patient John Doe. On the Orthanc viewer the name will appear as JOHN^DOE^. If I want to search for this patient I have to enter it as JOHN^DOE^. Please tell me if there is something I have to change in the configuration.json or if there is something else I need to do to fix this.
Thank You.
Hi,
I don’t think there is a setting to change this in the Orthanc Web Interface. The carrot is part of the Dicom standard for a Person Name (https://dicom.nema.org/dicom/2013/output/chtml/part05/sect_6.2.html#sect_6.2.1.1).
James
Hi
Many medical equipment do not recognize the space character as a valid character to give continuity to the text entered in a field with dicom format, however, those same equipment respect the space character if it comes in a “read” text, for example, from a worklist file. At this time, Orthanc only stores the information that reaches him, as it comes from the medical equipment.
Perhaps in the future it could be implemented in Orthanc web that when writing the name with the space included, the search option considers that this character can be stored as ^. For example, dicom viewers like Radiant consider it that way. In Radiant, if you search using the space between the first and last name, it not only gets the study of the patient, but also shows it with the space and not with the ^ in the results.
At the moment the best option to avoid this problem is the use of worklist. I also use very good software made by a great contributor called Orthanc Tool to change that character within the Orthanc server.
Greetings
William