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1 Why "Orthanc"?
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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.
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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.
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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.