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Nafis Abdullah Khan
Nafis Abdullah Khan

Reputation: 2390

DCMTK movescu not working for file retrieval

I am new in DICOM and DCMTK. I was trying to retrieve dcm files from a public test server (http://www.dicomserver.co.uk) with movescu command. But it's not working. I was able run findscu successfully but that's only to get data. Here's what I have tried:

findscu -v -P --call COMMON --patient --key 0008,0052=PATIENT --key 0010,0020="PAT004" www.dicomserver.co.uk 104

It works but same thing doesn't work for movescu like this:

movescu -v -P --call COMMON +P 104 --patient --key 0008,0052=PATIENT --key 0010,0020="PAT004" www.dicomserver.co.uk 104

The output:

I: Requesting Association
I: Association Accepted (Max Send PDV: 65524)
I: Sending Move Request (MsgID 1)
I: Request Identifiers:
I:
I: # Dicom-Data-Set
I: # Used TransferSyntax: Little Endian Explicit
I: (0008,0052) CS [PATIENT]                                #   8, 1 QueryRetrieveLevel
I: (0010,0020) LO [PAT004]                                 #   6, 1 PatientID
I:
W: Move response with error status (Failed: UnableToProcess)
I: Received Final Move Response (Failed: UnableToProcess)
I: Releasing Association

I am not running any local DICOM server or anything else. What is the right way to achieve this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4027

Answers (2)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 151

In case someone still has trouble with this issue:

  • each query has to include StudyInstanceUID + SeriesInstanceUID + PatientID
  • Because the retrieval process makes the PACS create an SCP session towards what's running movescu it needs to know how to approach it. AE is the name (of the machine) being sent and default is MOVESCU (can be changed with aec/aet flags flags, but PACS hosts file must have that ip-to-name mapping)
  • By default this protocol runs on port 104, which is restricted. you can either change this with +P flag to a port higher than 1024 (have not tried to verify PACS recieves this port number) or just run movescu with sudo/root
  • I don't know what is the default store directory, but this can be defined with -od flag.

working example:

sudo /usr/bin/movescu -v -od /path/to/dir PACS_IP 104 -k StudyInstanceUID=1.2.3.4.5 -k SeriesInstanceUID=1.2.3.4.5 -k PatientID=12345 +P 104

Upvotes: 1

J. Riesmeier
J. Riesmeier

Reputation: 1702

According to the DICOM standard (PS3.4), you have to specify the unique key of the PATIENT level for the C-MOVE request. Patient's Name (0010,0010) shouldn't be "*" (which is "Wild Card Matching" for the query phase) but Patient ID (0010,0020) should have the real value, i.e. one of those Patient IDs that you have queried using "findscu".

By the way, did you also start a Storage SCP on your system to listen on port 104? See online documentation of http://dicomserver.co.uk/. If not, you could start "movescu" with the additional command line option "+P 104" (because this tool has a one build in).

Upvotes: 3

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