Hi,
I just recently downloaded the Conquest dicom server and started familiarize myself with it (so please bear with me). It seems to be a very nice software, thumbsup to the developers!
My inital interest is to use it for sorting and forwarding incoming MRI research studies to different project servers. I have played around a little bit with Exportconverters using the "forward" and "copy" commands, which seems to work most of the time. I have some questions though:
1. What is the best way of deleting each study from the Conquest server after forward/copy is completed? I would prefer to use the central server just for forwarding, and not storing any images on it.
Using
"ExportConverter1 = delete patient after 600"
seem to work, but what would happen if the forwarding process is not finished after the delete delay time (some of the incoming studies are expexted to be rather big, +10000 images)?
Maybe it is better to skip deleting each study and instead set it up for a nightly complete delete (if possible)?
2. If I use e.g.
"#ExportConverter0 = copy %f to C:\projectimages"
is it then possible to store the copied images in a directory structure like e.g. "...\PatID\StudyID\SeriesDescrption\ImageNo.dcm" similar to the how local storage is handled with the "FileNameSyntax" command?
3. For some cases I would like to use ftp for forwarding of images. I tried to use
"ExportConverter0 = submit..."
but wasn't able to get it to work. Could anybody please provide a correct syntax for a simple case of ftp forwarding?
4. What differences in speed performance could I expect when using the three different ways of forwarding mentioned above? Some of the incoming studies will probably be rather big...
Any tips and hints appreciated!