If you can already view DICOM images within your EHR, you likely won’t require a standalone viewer. Most EHR systems support the DICOM standard for viewing and transmitting images. It is an international standard file format and network communications protocol developed by the American College of Radiology (ACR) specifically for medical imaging. To accomplish this, many providers are choosing standalone DICOM viewers.ĭICOM stands for Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine. As medicine moves towards a film-less future, providers must have the software tools necessary to share, view, or edit medical images. Interoperability woes can make it difficult to share and view medical images from disparate systems, especially if providers are using outdated EMR software or don’t have a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Despite high adoption rates and a myriad of choices, the complexity of many medical software systems can frustrate even the most technologically literate provider. getSeriesLeafIterator( $patid, $suid, $seriesUid) # 'Study Instance UID: ' + $suid + ', Study Date: ' + $sdate # 'Patient Name: ' + $patname + ', Patient ID: ' + $patid $files = New-Object -ComObject rzdcx.DCXDICOMDIR # return an array of referenced file id's (relative path to root dir)įunction GetDICOMDIRRefFileIDs ( $rooDir )

# Look for a DICOMDIR file in the provided path and scan it for all referenced file ID's

This script iterates through the DICOMDIR records to collect all referenced files, then it send them using DCXREQ.Send command to the PACS. Recalling on DICOMDIR, a DICOM CD or DVD has a file called DICOMDIR in the root path that references all DICOM files on the media. The PACS AE title has to be configured first in the settings.īut, for the automation enthusiasts, here's a PowerShell script that do the same. This functionality is available in MODALIZER+ from the View menu simply by right clicking the Study item at the top study panel and selecting 'Send to'. I'm posting this PowerShell script in response to a question I got about sending DICOM files on a CD to PACS.

View dicomdir file