Andreas
Thanks for producing a great entry level DICOM reader like K-Pacs.
We are using K-Pacs in a small Pacific Island where a cardiologist visits approx every 6 weeks to perform 6-10 angiograms using mobile C-arm equipment. This is a very low cost operation in line with the country's economy, and for that reason we chose K-Pacs to burn the images to disk for the referring doctor.
When we were using the earlier versions of K-Pacs, the downloads were relatively trouble free, but the file size was too large to burn to a CD. We anxiously awaited the release of V1.5 with its DVD burning capabilities, and initially it downloaded the DICOM files and burned DVD's well.
But now we have encountered a problem. The download seems to progress OK until the final stages, when all the images are shown as having been sent from the c-arm unit, but the export is not flagged as complete.
We then get an error on the PC that the Storage SCP has encountered a problem and stopped, and the download either fails completely or else does not transfer all of the images in the series for a patient.
We have tried using 2 different PCs; one running Windows Vista Home Premium; and one running Windows XP SP2. The result on both is similar. The Vista machine has a 2.0GB dual core processor and about 30 GB of spare hard disk space, and was the one which worked well previously.
We also thought there might be some arbitrary directory size for the downloaded images, so we created a second directory K-Pacs Images directory without success.
If we force the server to restart from within K-Pacs, there is no further success with the image download, but the small linked dosage report then downloads.
It looks as if we may have some file size limitations, as the problem is getting progressively worse. At the same time, we are probably collecting more images for each angiogram - typically 800-1000 images, and around 3GB per study.
In some studies we tried importing part studies and this worked with just a few images.
Can you please advise a course of action to overcome this problem?
Thanks
Norm H