# HG changeset patch # User bgo-osimis # Date 1549268938 -3600 # Node ID d4c0b7c2512619d4e4f8d6061af25fa8fb71e40f # Parent 99ba212989ccf88d5f78b8a786a2ea456d75ccba Added line breaks for easier diffs diff -r 99ba212989cc -r d4c0b7c25126 Sphinx/source/faq/series-completion.rst --- a/Sphinx/source/faq/series-completion.rst Sun Feb 03 14:44:14 2019 +0100 +++ b/Sphinx/source/faq/series-completion.rst Mon Feb 04 09:28:58 2019 +0100 @@ -5,7 +5,13 @@ 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. +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. +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.