Utilities For Patient Data Exchange

This project has two purposes:

• providing a tool to extend a snon-DICOM Radiology Input System with a DICOM interface for Modality Worklist Management as a SCP
• providing myself a project to learn and improve some programming skills

To view the documentation related to version 0.1.8 follow this link. The manual, source code and installer for Windows are available for download.

The code was developped on Windows XP, but should work fine with some minor changes on Linux/BSD systems. The installshield, created with Inno Setup, has been tested successfully on Win XP, Win 2000 server and Win 2003 server.

Version 0.16 has been used at 3 hospitals and 5 radiology centers for the past 4 years. The actual state of the code was achieved in order to provide these users with the functionality they desired. Also, have I tried to program a generic and configurable solution for the parser.

The major changes from version 0.16 to 0.1.8 are:

• more Object Oriented code
• eliminate the use of hourFormat and dateFormat
• minor changes in the manual
• leave the environment variables and registry unchanged during the installation (Win32 only)

Planned actions for this project are:

• rewrite the code for UPDEg and eventually make a compiled version
• include a configurable template for the header of the html file used for the DICOMDIR utility
• make the code 100% platform independant and provide an installation procedure for Linux/BSD (some testing done on OpenBSD 4.2)
• learn C++ in order to make a better use of the DCMTK from Offis and eventually convert the ruby code

I hope that this project can be of any help to some people out there and would like to thank the creators, maintainers and communities related to Sourceforge, the Ruby programming language, Inno Setup and Offis.

Kind Regards,




Willem Michiels