Create a zip of dicom files for selection of patients

Hi Marcel,

I would like to have one functionality, but I am not sure if it is supported so I rather ask you directly. I would like to provide a users a function where they can select patients which they are interested in and ConQuest will create a zip from the dicom files for selected patients that way that the hierarchy of files keeps the same as it is on the server. Basically the zip will have bunch of subfolders named with patient ids and in each subfolder there will the dicom data.

Is there a possibility to do this in a lua script? Can you give me a hint what API I need to call to accomplish this. My idea is to have a script which will read patients ids from querystring and that it locates the data on ConQuest, zip them a provide to download.

I would be grateful if you could point me to the good direction.

best

Tomas

Hi marcel

I checked the samples, but I was unable to find there how it is possible to query the private items 0x9999, 0x0800 for the filename etc. so I can copy them afterwards. I would be grateful if you can elaborate this process in more details.

I also found one problem script('rm ' .. directoryname) does not work for the directory... is there another command how I can delete created directory to clean up.

tnx

this is the script so far...

-- For testing only
patientids = {'176490801738950795192257927136423779330'}


-- Functions


function getImagesForPatient(patientid)
  local images, imaget, b, s
  s = servercommand('get_param:MyACRNema')

  -- When running from command line have to specify it directly
  -- For testing only
  s = 'CONQUESTSRV1'

  b = DicomObject:new()
  b.PatientID = patientid
  b.StudyInstanceUID = '*'
  b.SeriesInstanceUID = '*'
  b.SOPInstanceUID = ''
  images = dicomquery(s, 'IMAGE', b)

  imaget={}
  for k=0,#images-1 do
    imaget[k+1]={}
    imaget[k+1].SOPInstanceUID = images[k].SOPInstanceUID
  end
  table.sort(imaget, function(a,b) return a.SOPInstanceUID < b.SOPInstanceUID end)

  return imaget
end


-- Main


-- for all specified patients
for key, patientid in ipairs(patientids) do


  -- create a folder for patient data
  script('mkdir ' .. patientid)

  print('Looking for dicom data for patient with ID: ' .. patientid)

  -- create table of images
  local images = getImagesForPatient(patientid)
  print('Images count for files: ', #images)


  -- now copy for each  dicom data
  -- script('copy testfile to testcopy')
end


-- now zip all


-- now generate html page with zip as download (also some progress bar)


-- now cleanup
for key, patientid in ipairs(patientids) do
 script('rm ' .. patientid)
end

best
Tomas

Ok, now it is querying the values, but still have a problem to use them:

images[k]["9999,0800"]

seems to return null,

actually it would be nice to know exactly how the userstructure returned from dicomquery fucntion looks like. I am new to lua and this is not apparent to me.

thanks a lot

Tomas