Searching and Retrieving a Specific Study, Series, or Image from a Remote Location

Searching and retrieving a specific study, series, or image from a remote location

Using traditional methods to search remote locations for a specific image can take a few minutes and returns the entire study. The study then resides in the web cache, taking up valuable space. By using Image Query Retrieve, you can expand the DICOM tree and locate the specific study, series or image to retrieve to your web cache. The selected series or image is retrieved rather than the whole study. Depending on your needs, the entire study, series or just one image can be selected and saved into your web cache.

Sort type	Parameters
When searching for a specific study, series or image, patients are listed by:	Name, ID number, gender, and date of birth.
Studies are sorted in reverse chronological order and are listed by:	Study date, accession number, modality, study description, physician, and number of images.
The series are listed by:	Series number, modality, description, and number of images.
Images are listed by:	Image acquisition number, location, orientation, slice thickness, and description.

To use image query retrieve

Change the location to a remote location.
Set the search criterion.
Click Search.

The search may take several minutes.

Select the study and click image retrieve.

Note: You can select more than one study at a time.

The Select image window opens.

To expand the patient information, moving further into the tree to find the specific study, series or image you are looking for, click the + symbol.

Note: Tool tips provide information on the various fields in the Select image window.

To retrieve the study, image or series you have selected, click OK.

You will receive notification when the requested study, series or image arrives in the web cache.

Note: The request cannot be canceled after it is sent to the server.

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