Pretty sure the Stone Viewer cannot operate in a “Standalone” fashion, but I thought worth asking about. Looking for a good way to distribute studies with a bundled viewer option via Orthanc. There are a number of open source and free / commercial viewers out there like Weasis, OHIF, etc., but wondering if the Stone viewer can view local studies somehow, or if that feature is on the roadmap for that.
Hi Stephen,
The StoneViewer needs Orthanc (at least a dicom-web server) and can only operate in a browser/webview. There are no plans in the roadmap to change that since it’s inherent to the techno that we’ve used.
However, it is still possible to build e.g: an ElectronJs app that would:
- launch Orthanc in the background
- index the local storage with the Folder Indexer plugin
- run the Orthanc Explorer or StoneViewer interface in the Electron WebView
Also note that, with stone of orthanc, you can build a standalone C++ app that would read DICOM files from a local storage. However, that would require quite a lot of coding since the StoneViewer interface is not included in the stone of orthanc lib → you would have to rebuild the UI in C++.
HTH
Alain