Posts by AndreasKnopke

    K-PACS/iQ-View can display embedded bitmap overlays (group 6000) and can also display Structured Reports. Creation of SR is not possible yet.


    Regards,
    Andreas

    Yes,


    click the "DICOM Settings" button and select the "Modality Worklist" tab.
    Here you can uncheck the "Study Date" field. Now, study date will not be updated anymore with the value present in the worklist order.


    Regards,
    Andreas

    If you are using V 2.1 then check if the iQ-View.ini option:


    [CDBurnSettings]
    MediumIdentifier=IQ-DICOMDIR



    is set to an acceptable value and is not empty. Otherwise a blocking of dcmmkdir is possible as well, check if it still occurs when you disable the security program.


    Regards,
    Andreas


    Ps.: I forwared your iQ-3D request to our 3D developement team

    Did you update the "Remote Devices" table in E-Film? Here you have to state IP, Port and AET of your K-PACS client.
    Receiving images from E-Film worked without any problems in my tests (K-PACS 1.0 vs E-Film 1.9)


    Regards,
    Andreas

    We are proud to announce the beginning of the pre-release test phase for iQ-VIEW 2.2 and K-PACS 1.2
    Expected release date is end of August.


    Features and bugfixes:


    - Revised memory management to solve stability issue on heavy workload (e.g. lot's of mammogramms, large angiography series)
    - Improved database integrity and server stability.
    - revised patient CD burn module now complying to IHE PDI profile (K-PACS Lite and iQ-LITE) and the German Radiology Society's Guidlines (iQ-LITE only)
    - Introduction of a patient level table and an image preview table on the "Study Browser" Dialog.
    - Improved DICOM data compatiblity above all with objects containing so called "sequence tags".
    - Lot's of smaller improvements


    iQ-View only:
    - Introduction of an API DLL to remotly control iQ-VIEW from another application (like HIS/RIS)
    - Modality specific as well as series description based hanging protocols
    - Calibration mode to manually define image pixel spacing


    Users of K-PACS who want to participate in beta testing version 1.2 are welcome to contact me via the forum's private message option.
    iQ-VIEW customers with interest in testing version 2.2 are equally welcome.


    Best regards,
    Andreas

    This is actually a more complex issue than one thinks.
    There are different ways to achive this task:
    1. Create a copy of the image with corrected W/L settings using the Secondary Caputre feature (STRG+SPACE) of iQ-View (not in K-PACS). This is not suitable for multi-image series like with CT or MR since you have to do it for every image.
    2. Store W/L changes into the local database. This is on our ToDo list but will not lead to an adaption of W/L in the lite viewer because it does not use a database. We could however use the adapted settings to create the DICOMDIR
    3. Store W/L changes into so called Presentation State DICOM objects. This should be the prefered way but is also still under developement.


    Be asured, that we recognized this feature as essential and work on a solution for both K-PACS and IQ-View


    Regards,
    Andreas

    K-PACS and iQ-View are viewer applications which are not (yet) supposed to act as a full archive. That's why you can not yet query another K-PACS/IQ-View station. There are a lot of free and open source applications which you could use for this task. We recommend Conquest as a stable and performant server.


    Nevertheless, iQ-View will support Q/R soon. We did not decide yet if K-PACS will do so, too.


    Regards,
    Andreas

    You can setup the built in receiver of K-PACS (KPSERVER) to prefer Jpeg lossless compressed transfer syntax. If your remote node supports it, this setup could speed up your connection.
    When sending images, K-PACS will propose uncompressed transfersyntax and Jpeg lossless compressed TS. If the receiver is setup to prefer compressed, K-PACS will try to compress the images before sending it (unless they are already compressed)


    A JPEG Lossless compression will approx. shrink image data size 2:1. Note that Jpeg lossless compressed images are still valid DICOM images with a DICOM header and a pixeldata part.


    Regards,
    Andreas