Hi ,

I've been testing ClearCanvas for a while now, and it looks really good. But I did run into a problem the other day:

I'm currently trying to use ClearCanvas to implement a PACS browser which can retrieve series from the remote Dicom server and store them locally. I use the StudyRootMoveScu to issue the move command to the server and then I use the StorageScp class from the example application to listen for incomming dicom files and store them to disk.

This works fine when I am connected to a local dicom server on my PC. When I do the same on a slow reacting dicom server on the network, I get problems.

It looks like I am calling StorageScp.StopListening before all the dicom files have been downloaded.

So the question is:

How can the storageScp know that it has received all the files from the original Move-command, so that I know when to stop the listener and move on?

best regards

J

 Hi J,

This is a common challenge for those of us who work with DICOM image transfers.   I don't pretend to be an expert by any stretch, but there's basically no consistent way to do this that will work for ALL PACS servers.  Take a look at this related post to get an idea for various solutions that have been proposed.

http://www.clearcanvas.ca/dnn/Commu...fault.aspx

Good luck,

Seth

sberkowi, thank you very much for your response.

It was starting to dawn on me that I needed to either count the numer og instances received or compute the time between each received item. Maybe it's possible to design a scheme where you either use the numberOfSeriesRelatedInstances number  or, if that is not available, base the result on a timing computation.

Best regards,

J