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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Sphinx/source/faq/why-orthanc.rst Fri Apr 22 12:57:38 2016 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Why "Orthanc"? +============== + +The spelling "`Orthanc +<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthanc#Orthanc>`__" originates from +`J.R.R. Tolkien <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien>`__'s +work. + +Orthanc is the black tower of Isengard that houses one of the +**palantíri**. A `palantír +<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr>`__ is a spherical stone +whose name literally means "One that Sees from Afar". When one looks +into a palantír, one can communicate with other such stones and anyone +who might be looking into them. This is quite similar to the Orthanc +server, which is designed for a simple, transparent, programmatic +access to medical images in the entire hospital DICOM topology. + +"Orthanc" also contains the trigram "RTH", standing for +**Radiotherapy**. This is a reference to the fact that Orthanc +originates from research on cancer that is carried on at the +`University Hospital of Liège <http://www.chu.ulg.ac.be/>`__, in the +Department of medical physics.