Frequently asked questions

General questions about the project

• What DICOM viewer is compatible with Orthanc?
• Licensing of the Orthanc ecosystem
• Terminology of advanced features
• Scalability of Orthanc
• Securing Orthanc
• How do you get “mainline” binaries ?
• Software X from vendor Y is not compatible with Orthanc
• Why “Orthanc”?
• How can I donate money to the project?
• How do you spell “Orthanc”?

Questions related to Orthanc and DICOM

• Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting DICOM communications
• Compiling Orthanc
• Configuring DICOM Query/Retrieve
• Configuring DICOM TLS
• Finding samples for the REST API
• Transcoding of DICOM files
• How does Orthanc store its database?
• How to authenticate users?
• Debugging Orthanc
• Crash analysis

Features supported by Orthanc

• Orthanc Explorer is not user-friendly enough for my use
• Supported DICOM images
• Does Orthanc support videos?
• Does Orthanc support worklists?
• How to find out where a DICOM instance originates from?

Specific FAQs

• Collecting logs
• Orthanc identifiers
• Main DICOM Tags in DB
• Orthanc versioning
• Starting Orthanc as a GNU/Linux daemon
• Accessing an Orthanc instance running inside Fedora/RHEL/CentOS
• How can I run Orthanc behind Apache?
• How can I run Orthanc behind nginx?
• How can I run Orthanc behind Microsoft IIS?
• HTTPS encryption with Orthanc
• Same-origin policy in JavaScript
• Interfacing with Matlab and Octave
• What does the series completion status mean?
• Some tricks with DCMTK
• Debugging encoding issues (SpecificCharacterSet)
• How to guarantee study transfer atomicity?