Orthanc

Orthanc is a lightweight open-source standalone DICOM server which can be extended via its RESTful API and plugin mechanism allowing new modules to be developed. Orthanc is built on top of dcmtk^AUR. A Web viewer, a PostgreSQL database back-end, a MySQL database back-end, and a reference implementation of DICOMweb are currently freely available as plugins. [1]

Installation

Just install the orthanc^AUR package.

The latter will require dcmtk^AUR which is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large parts the DICOM standard.

Each time the lib icu is updated, you will have to rebuild dcmtk^AUR, otherwise orthanc^AUR will complain.

To launch Orthanc, simply start the systemd unit orthanc.service.

• The DICOM files you upload to the Orthanc application are stored in /var/lib/orthanc/.
• The JSON server configuration file is stored as /etc/webapps/orthanc/config.json.

Plugins

Orthanc is provided with a bunch of plugins, whose some of the official ones are packaged for Arch Linux as well.

Web viewer

This official plugin extends Orthanc with a Web viewer of medical images.[2]

Install orthanc-plugin-web-viewer^AUR

Add the path to the lib in the Plugins node of the JSON server configuration

"Plugins" : [
  "/usr/share/orthanc/plugins/libOrthancWebViewer.so",
],

Restart the orthanc.service for the changes to take effect.

DICOMweb

This official plugin extends Orthanc with support of the DICOMweb protocols. More precisely, the plugin introduces a basic, reference implementation of WADO-URI, WADO-RS, QIDO-RS and STOW-RS, following DICOM PS3.18. The plugin simultaneously turns Orthanc into a DICOMweb server and into a DICOMweb client.[3]

Install orthanc-plugin-dicomweb^AUR

Add the path to the lib in the Plugins node of the JSON server configuration

"Plugins" : [
  "/usr/share/orthanc/plugins/libOrthancDicomWeb.so",
],

Restart the orthanc.service for the changes to take effect.