Patient names are encrypted?

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Hi thanks for the help!

We just setup Orthanc for the first time and we connected it to receive studies. Everything is going great except the patient names all appear like ###5oC{wQ:C8. Is there something in configuration we need to change?

Thank you!!
Alan

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Hello,

This shouldn’t happen, there’s visibly something special with your DICOM files.

Would you mind sharing one sample DICOM file so that we can independently reproduce your issue?

Sébastien-

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Thank you for the help! I’ll email it to you personally

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Hello,

I have just had a look at the DICOM file you sent me, and here is what the standard command-line tool “dcm2xml” from DCMTK reports:

$ dcm2xml DX000000.dcm | grep ‘PatientName’
####jC(gsi6d'_60

So, Orthanc is perfectly right. The problem lies in the configuration of your source modality, please get in touch with the support team of your vendor:
https://book.orthanc-server.com/faq/proprietary.html

Kind Regards,
Sébastien-

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Appreciate you taking a look! We’ll see what we can do on the sender side. Thank you!!