PostgreSQL plugins for Orthanc
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General Information
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This repository contains the source code of 2 plugins for Orthanc, the
lightweight, RESTful DICOM server. These 2 plugins enable Orthanc to
store its files and its index as PostgreSQL databases.


Installation and usage
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Build and usage instructions are available in the Orthanc Book:
https://orthanc.chu.ulg.ac.be/book/plugins/postgresql.html


Licensing
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The PostgreSQL plugins for Orthanc are licensed under the AGPL license.

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:

@Article{Jodogne2018,
  author="Jodogne, S{\'e}bastien",
  title="The {O}rthanc Ecosystem for Medical Imaging",
  journal="Journal of Digital Imaging",
  year="2018",
  month="Jun",
  day="01",
  volume="31",
  number="3",
  pages="341--352",
  issn="1618-727X",
  doi="10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y",
  url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-018-0082-y"
}