DICOMweb plugin for Orthanc
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General Information
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This repository contains the source code of a plugin for Orthanc, the
lightweight Vendor Neutral Archive for medical imaging. This plugin
extends the RESTful API of Orthanc with WADO and DICOMweb support.


DICOMweb Support
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Currently, a basic support of the following protocols is provided:

* WADO-URI (Web Access to DICOM Persistent Objects), previously known as WADO
  http://medical.nema.org/Dicom/2011/11_18pu.pdf
  http://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/html/part18.html#sect_6.2

* WADO-RS (Web Access to DICOM Objects by RESTful Services)
  http://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/html/part18.html#sect_6.5

* STOW-RS (STore Over the Web by RESTful Services)
  http://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/html/part18.html#sect_6.6

* QIDO-RS (Query based on ID for DICOM Objects by RESTful Services)
  http://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/current/output/html/part18.html#sect_6.7

The full status about the support of these protocols can be found in
the "./Status.txt" file.


Installation and usage
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Build and usage instructions are available in the Orthanc Book:
https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/plugins/dicomweb.html


Contributing
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Instructions for contributing to the Orthanc project are included in
the Orthanc Book:
https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/book/developers/repositories.html


Licensing: AGPL
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The DICOMweb plugin for Orthanc is licensed under the Affero General
Public License (AGPL) license. Pay attention to the fact that this
license is more restrictive than the license of the Orthanc core.

We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make
use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications.
Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make
use of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work
using the following BibTeX entry:

@Article{Jodogne2018,
  author="Jodogne, S{\'e}bastien",
  title="The {O}rthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging",
  journal="Journal of Digital Imaging",
  year="2018",
  month="Jun",
  day="01",
  volume="31",
  number="3",
  pages="341--352",
  issn="1618-727X",
  doi="10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y",
  url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y"
}
