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author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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date | Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:24:56 +0200 |
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Why "Orthanc"? ============== The spelling "`Orthanc <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isengard>`__" 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 <https://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.