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- PMOD-provided commercial
license of the proven mySQL
classic database engine
- Local or remote installation of mySQL database engine
- JDBC-based communication between PMOD and mySQL
- Available on Windows, Linux,
Mac OSX
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| DICOM Data Base Server |
- Receives DICOM objects over the network from modalities or PACS (DICOM server)
- Queries other DICOM servers to retrieve images
- (DICOM Query/Retrieve)
- Organizes fast access to DICOM images
- Can operate as format conversion server
- (eg DICOM Secondary Capture to JPEG)
- Serves as central data repository for multiple PMOD installation
- Allows assignment of data to user-defined projects
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| The PMOD DICOM server is an optional product. Its purpose is to receive DICOM images sent to it from a remote node, or to list studies on a remote DICOM server and directly retrieve the ones of interest. For example, recent images can be fetched from a GE Advance console, and prior images for comparison from the central PACS archive. |
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| Secure DICOM with PMOD. Standard DICOM communication is insecure, and therefore is not recommended to use over public networks. To overcome this problem, a DICOM supplement has been finalized which allows to implement secure connections over the internet. PMOD supports one of the proposed variants called BASIC TLS SECURE TRANSPORT CONNECTION PROFILE. Of the three optional features (entity authentification, encryption, integrity check) encryption is implemented in current release. As a consequence, the transfered data can only be interpreted by the target DICOM server with which the communication has been established. |
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- Dramatic speed-up when working with DICOM image data
- Unified interface for all types of data such as images, volumes-of-interest, statistics, kinetic model fits, etc.
- Clear relation of derived data to origin
- Structured queries to locate information
- Backup facilities for database tables and data
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Improves Data Organization
When working in the PMOD environment, the user typically analyses images and generates derived information such as volumes-of-interest, regional statistics, kinetic model fits, functional maps, spatial reorientation parameters, and many more. When saved as simple files, these data tend to get difficult to relate correctly. The PMOD database option relieves the user from organizing the data himself. He needs not any more bother about directory paths and embed all descriptions into file names. Rather, the data are saved transparently, and the system keeps track from which study the saved information was derived from. When looking for information at a later time, powerful database queries can be employed. |
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Dramatically Speeds up Access to DICOM Images
The database option is a huge benefit for users working with DICOM image data. Normally, for loading a DICOM study, the system must first scan all files belonging to the study to collect access information, and subsequently load the images. This procedure is highly inefficient and gets annoying when a specific study must be found. With the database option, demographic and access information for all DICOM studies are stored centrally and can be accessed instantaneously. On this basis, the patients can be listed or queried for, and image loading starts immediatly after selecting one of their studies. |
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Products 
DICOM Server]
DICOM Database Brochure