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Added an entry on series completion
author | bgo-osimis |
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date | Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:39:00 +0100 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sphinx/source/faq/series-completion.rst Sat Feb 02 17:39:00 2019 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +What do the various status displayed in a series header mean? +============================================================= + +A series can be assigned a status by Orthanc. I can list as *unknown*, *missing*, *inconsistent* or *complete*. + +The status is meant to convey the completeness of the series, as known by Orthanc. + +As a general rule, since there is no generic DICOM tag that contains the number of DICOM instances that are contained in a given series, and since there is no generic tag that contains the index of a DICOM instance inside its parent series, it is in general impossible to know if a series is complete in terms of its instances. This is the meaning of the *Unknown* status displayed by Orthanc. + +However, for some types of images (such as cardiac MRI), the DICOM modules might specify a tag that contains this information. If such a tag is available for a series, Orthanc will either report a *Complete* status (if all the instances have been received), *Incomplete* (if some instances are [still] missing) or *Inconsistent* if there is an error inside the numbering of the instances. +