Orthanc

Orthanc is an easy to set up PACS which is included in the setup

Note the structure of the ODBC Name which is ORTHANC@192.168.0.100:104. This is the AETitle which is the server name ORTHANC followed by @IP:port. The IP should be a fixed address so that all remote Fiji machines can easily access it. The default DICOM port is 104. (In some cases 4242 is used.)

The Orthanc PACS is the connection to DICOM network in your department. Fiji reads from Orthanc, so may have to have a 2 step process: 1) retrieve the study from some camera or workstation to Orthanc, and then 2) use the Read BI studies to load it into Fiji. There is a reasonable chance that the study is already on Orthanc, so you need to retrieve it only if it isn't already available.

To allow retrieval is the purpose of Data path which is set to http://192.168.0.100:80/. The structure here is the http: keyword for Web access followed by //IP:port. The port here is the http port in place of the previous DICOM port. The default is 80, but in some cases 8042 is used. Note that the IP is the same as the value used in ODBC Name.

If this is setup with the http: keyword, then a Web button will appear for Orthanc servers.

Pressing on the button will open a browser to whatever address is specified. Be careful not to open a browser multiple times since it will eat up your available memory.

You may wish to specify that it go directly to the query page, or perhaps somewhere else. In the case of the query page, it is easiest to open the above http path to the main page and then press on the Query Retrieve button in the browser. That will give you an updated address which you can copy-paste into the Data path (being careful to include the http: keyword). In our case the modified path would be
http://192.168.0.100:80/app/explorer.html#query-retrieve.

Save for Conference

Save for Conference is described here. In this case we are preparing for a conference called Barcelona. Next to the Barcelona name there is a path to a directory on the local disk on the laptop. At the conference there will be no access to the Orthanc server so we need to use Read from CD with the studies on the laptop itself.

It is also possible to save the studies on a shared disk on the LAN. This may be useful if the connection to the Orthanc server is over a slow Internet connection, where any study which was read by anyone in the group would come across much faster from the shared disk on the LAN.

Still another use might be to prepare a USB external disk with studies of interest. Up to 10 different destinations can be set up in Read from CD.

Easy update for multiple Windows machines

For Windows only there is an easy way to set up in an identical fashion multiple machines. This could be useful when you go to the trouble of setting up your machine and you want to transfer all parameters to all other machines in the department.

Windows has changed the way it works from XP to win10. This example is for XP. Go into a command prompt and type "regedit". Then open the key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> JavaSoft -> Prefs -> <unnamed> -> biplugins. For win10 the more standard HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> .... is used instead. Then go to File -> Export in the regedit program, and choose a file name.</unnamed>

Now you have a file with extension "reg" which you can edit. Here is an example

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Prefs\<unnamed>\biplugins
"/O/D/B/C0"="/O/R/T/H/A/N/C@192.168.0.100:104"
"db user0"=""
"db pass0"=""
"db path0"="http:\\192.168.0.100:80\"
"db type0"="5"
"db display name0"="orthanc"</unnamed>

With the more standard use you will see

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\<unnamed>\biplugins
(followed by entries which you can edit and delete the values you don't want to transfer)</unnamed>

This is a fool proof way to accurately transfer anything you like so all machines are set up identically. You simply make this file available to your colleagues and tell them to double click on it. There will appear a warning message that you are about to modify registry values. They should ignore the message since this is a legal modification.

Return to help.