How Do I Set up DICOM Communication?

The RamSoft software supports two way DICOM communication. It is also able to serve and perform DICOM queries. However, RamSoft systems are not promiscuous. This means that they will not communicate with any DICOM station, that has not been explicitly identified as a safe station. In order to identify a station, you would need the AE Title information for the station, its IP address, and the port(s) that it uses for DICOM communication. Once you have that information, follow the procedure for Adding New DICOM Station. Once a station has been added, communication can begin.

After the establishment of communication, connectivity verification can be done any time by using the connection test feature. This utility uses the DICOM ping command to verify connectivity between any two stations. The software also contains a DICOM Heartbeat option which automatically monitors the connectivity and ensures that all communications occur smoothly.

This section also covers the communication monitoring logs provided by the RamSoft software. Details on these can be found in the related topics section below.

The last topic in this section covers the configuration of preferred transfer syntaxes used for negotiation with an incoming DICOM communication. The details of this can be found in How Do I Set Up the Receive Compression Negotiation?

RELATED TOPICS

• How Can I Monitor the Studies Sent by the System?
• How Can I Monitor the Study Requests made to other Stations?
• How Can I Monitor the Studies Received by the System?
• How Can I Monitor any Dicom Communication Problems?
• How Do I Set Up the Receive Compression Negotiation?