Brackets in PatientId

  • Occasionally, I get brackets in the patient ID on the receiving system when sent from conquest. The patient id is normal in the database and at the file system level, so it must be happening during transmission. For example:


    Conquest receives the study with patient id of ABC11234, but when it sends it, the other system receives ABC1234[CONQUESTAE-828282828282828]
    Any ideas, or am I missing something basic in the configuration?

  • Oh yeah, forgot to mention that when this happens, only one image is sent. If I manually re-send the study from Conquest using dgate --movestudy, the entire study is sent and received, but under the patientid with brackets.

  • OK, I figured it out. It is not Conquest's fault. The receiving system appends the brackets when a study is sent with the same patient id, but conflicting names. It sends a "warning" association back to Conquest. Conquest, however, takes this as an error and hangs up, instead of transmitting the images anyway. Maybe there is a setting on Conquest's side to send anyway? Thanks.

  • Debug from receiving side:
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - Session: <284> started from SCU: 10.0.0.12
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - <284> Receiving A-ASSOCIATE-RQ PDU
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - 1 record found in [applentity] table
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - <284> A-ASSOCIATE-RQ received successfully
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - <284> Sending A-ASSOCIATE-AC PDU
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - <284> A-ASSOCIATE-AC PDU sent successfully
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - <284> Receiving P-DATA-TF PDU
    Wed May 13 14:19:55 2009 INFO - <284> C-STORE [151] command received in P-DATA-TF PDU
    Wed May 13 14:20:01 2009 ERROR - Patient Name: [xxxx ] conflicts with existing patient ID: [ABC76802]
    Wed May 13 14:20:01 2009 WARNING - Tag: 0x00100020 coerced from [ABC76802] to [ABC76802[CONQUEST-0513142001]]
    Wed May 13 14:20:01 2009 WARNING - Duplicate Patient ID from AE: [CONQUEST] coerced.
    Wed May 13 14:20:01 2009 INFO - 72 tags processed in CDataSetPdv
    Wed May 13 14:20:02 2009 INFO - <284> A-ASSOCIATE-RELEASE-RQ PDU received
    Wed May 13 14:20:02 2009 INFO - <284> Sending A-ASSOCIATE-RELEASE-RSP PDU
    Wed May 13 14:20:02 2009 INFO - <284> A-ASSOCIATE-RELEASE-RSP PDU sent successfully
    Wed May 13 14:20:02 2009 INFO - Session: <284> disconnected for client: 10.0.0.12


    Debug from Conquest:
    Wed May 13 14:23:43 2009 *** connection terminated

  • Marcel,
    Here is the debug from conquest:
    Tue May 19 09:22:13 2009 Inconsistent PatientNam in DICOMPatients: PatientID = 'ABC87180' PatientID = 'ABC87180', Old='PYLE, GOMERP', New='PYLE, GOMER'


    And the debug from receiving:
    Tue May 19 09:35:12 2009 ERROR - Patient Name: [PYLE, GOMER, ] conflicts with
    existing patient ID: [ABC87180]
    Tue May 19 09:35:12 2009 WARNING - Tag: 0x00100020 coerced from [ABC87180] to [ABC87180[CONQUEST-0519093512]]
    Tue May 19 09:35:12 2009 WARNING - Duplicate Patient ID from AE: [CONQUEST] coerced.

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