Ibrahim Lab DICOM storage server

Inspired by Logi Vidarsson's perl scripts and Wayne Lee's bash scripts for dcmtk

Install

# install dependencies
sudo add-apt-repository universe  # dcmtk lives on the universe repo
sudo apt install dcmtk python3-pip

# download repository and install python packages
git clone https://github.com/gmilab/dcmserver
cd dcmserver
pip install -U -r ./requirements.txt

# create a user for the server
sudo useradd dcmserver

Edit the systemd unit files with the appropriate paths and parameters, then install them.

sudo cp dicomserver.service dicomserver-mover.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl enable dicomserver.service
sudo systemctl enable dicomserver-mover.service

sudo systemctl start dicomserver.service
sudo systemctl start dicomserver-mover.service

Then test from another computer

cd [directory with dicom files]
dcmsend [server] [port] ./