Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server
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General Information
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General information about this software can be found on its official
Website:
http://www.orthanc-server.com/

Orthanc Client is a SDK to access the content of a remote instance of
Orthanc. It is currently only available for C++, more languages will
be supported in the future.

This software was originally part of the Orthanc core repository, but
was separated starting with Orthanc 0.9.0.


Licensing
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Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license, with the OpenSSL
exception:
http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make
use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications.
Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make
use of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work
using the following BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{Jodogne:ISBI2013,
  author = {Jodogne, S. and Bernard, C. and Devillers, M. and Lenaerts, E. and Coucke, P.},
  title = {Orthanc -- {A} Lightweight, {REST}ful {DICOM} Server for Healthcare and Medical Research},
  booktitle={Biomedical Imaging ({ISBI}), {IEEE} 10th International Symposium on}, 
  year={2013}, 
  pages={190-193}, 
  ISSN={1945-7928},
  month=apr,
  url={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6556444},
  address={San Francisco, {CA}, {USA}}
}