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| 1 Why "Orthanc"? | |
| 2 ============== | |
| 3 | |
| 4 The spelling "`Orthanc | |
| 5 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthanc#Orthanc>`__" originates from | |
| 6 `J.R.R. Tolkien <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien>`__'s | |
| 7 work. | |
| 8 | |
| 9 Orthanc is the black tower of Isengard that houses one of the | |
| 10 **palantíri**. A `palantír | |
| 11 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr>`__ is a spherical stone | |
| 12 whose name literally means "One that Sees from Afar". When one looks | |
| 13 into a palantír, one can communicate with other such stones and anyone | |
| 14 who might be looking into them. This is quite similar to the Orthanc | |
| 15 server, which is designed for a simple, transparent, programmatic | |
| 16 access to medical images in the entire hospital DICOM topology. | |
| 17 | |
| 18 "Orthanc" also contains the trigram "RTH", standing for | |
| 19 **Radiotherapy**. This is a reference to the fact that Orthanc | |
| 20 originates from research on cancer that is carried on at the | |
| 21 `University Hospital of Liège <http://www.chu.ulg.ac.be/>`__, in the | |
| 22 Department of medical physics. |