Hi everybody,
I have settled a very basic dicom server thanks to this nice tool (aka Orthanc) for my own usage (not a production server in my institution).
After some months, this place is a little bit messy. I would like to reorganize dicom files into folders ( I mean in the web interface not the raw files).
My first idea would be to listen to a different port on the server depending on the dicom images I am willing to push. Let’s say QC images on port 4242, patient images of some trials on an other port.
As such, I think it would be possible to access to a specific type of images by pointing to the correct port in a web browser (for example 8042 for QC images and 8043 for trials images).
How this could be possible ? I have looked at Peers but I am not really sure that will suites my purpose.
Any help would be appreciated.
Best regards
Ludovic
Hi Ludovic,
One solution is to launch 2 different Orthanc instances with each one having:
- its own HTTP Port (i.e 8042 & 8043)
- its own Dicom Port (i.e 4242 & 4243)
- its own Storage Directory
and you could configure your modalities to send images to either port 4242 or 4243.
If you can not route your instances at modality level, you could have 3 orthancs: the 2 orthanc described above that would store the files and one “router” orthanc that would receive all files from the modalities and route them to Orthanc A or B according to i.e. some DICOM tags (https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/lua.html#auto-routing-of-dicom-images). When sending images from one Orthanc to the other, you can send them either in DICOM or using the peers system.