dcm4chee-arc-light on Ubuntu 24.04

Overview

dcm4chee is a production grade DICOM archive, the kind of system a radiology department runs as its picture archiving and communication system. Scanners, ultrasound machines, CT and MRI equipment speak DICOM, and dcm4chee gives them an enterprise node to send studies to: it listens on the DICOM protocol, indexes every patient, study, series and instance it receives into a relational database, and makes them queryable and retrievable by the imaging equipment and viewers that need them.

Alongside the classic DICOM services it exposes DICOMweb, the STOW, QIDO and WADO REST endpoints, so studies can be pushed, searched and pulled by modern web applications, plus an HL7 receiver for order and result messages and a built in web interface for browsing and administering the archive. It suits hospitals, imaging centres, research groups and teleradiology projects that need a full featured, standards based image archive they operate inside their own cloud account rather than a hosted vendor service.

Common uses

• A departmental picture archiving system for medical imaging
• A DICOM node for teleradiology and research image sharing
• DICOMweb access to imaging studies for clinical web applications

See it running

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