Orthanc

Orthanc: Open-Source DICOM Server

Orthanc is an open-source, lightweight DICOM server designed for healthcare and medical imaging applications, securely storing, retrieving, processing, and exchanging DICOM files for use in PACS systems.

What is Orthanc?

Orthanc is a lightweight, open-source DICOM server designed for medical imaging and healthcare applications. It provides a RESTful API that allows DICOM files, worklists and reports to be securely stored, managed and exchanged between systems and users.

Key features of Orthanc include:

• Lightweight DICOM server that can run on commodity hardware
• Implements DICOM and WEB standards for working with medical imaging data
• RESTful API for integration with other systems and zero-footprint web viewer
• Anonymization and conversion of DICOM files
• Advanced image processing algorithms through integration with OsiriX and other tools
• Open source server, licensed under AGPL, with active community support

Orthanc is commonly used in healthcare organizations as an affordable, reliable and scalable DICOM archive. It can serve as the DICOM back-end to open-source PACS solutions like DCM4CHEe or OHIF to provide advanced enterprise image management capabilities at low cost. The availability of the REST API also makes it easy to develop custom applications and analysis tools integrated with the medical imaging archive.

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