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GHDX2-ADA DICOM Storage and Archive Appliance Admin Guide
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Congratulations on the purchase of a DICOM Appliance. This guide
discusses how to unpack, setup and use the DICOM Appliance and its
management tools.
About the DICOM Appliance
The DICOM Appliance provides a mirrored hard disk architecture and an integrated
Panasonic ADA (Advanced Disc for Archive) Drive, bringing a high level of reliability for your
DICOM archives. The DICOM Appliance provides integration with modalities and PACS
solutions using DICOM 3.0 standards.
The DICOM Appliance has an easy-to-use web-based management interface, allowing
administrators to manage the system from almost anywhere, at any time. It is easy to
setup. Simply follow these step-by-step instructions and the organization will soon be
archiving its DICOM images.
The DICOM Appliance provides reliable multi-modality centralized storage with fast and
consistent access to patient data and images virtually from anywhere.
Overview
The DICOM Appliance is a fully integrated DICOM Storage and DICOM Application Server,
compatible with any DICOM modality and DICOM 3.0 viewing workstations.
The DICOM Appliance provides PACS services such as storage provider and query retrieval
provider. Both of these services run as Linux daemons and utilize the DBMS system and file
indexers for managing the medical images and reports.
A typical network consists of a central DICOM Appliance which stores a database containing
images from one or multiple modalities and from which multiple clients can retrieve and
display these images using medical imaging software. The images are stored in DICOM
format. The modalities (MRI, CT, PET, Ultrasounds ...) send the images to the Appliance by
using a DICOM "push" (DICOM C-Store). The server and the client workstations
communicate by using the DICOM protocol (DICOM C-Store or Query & Retrieve). The
clients display the images by using medical imaging software such as a DICOM viewer or a
radiology review workstation client software system.
