Web Viewer plugin for Orthanc
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General Information
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This repository contains the source code of a plugin implementing a
Web viewer for Orthanc, the lightweight, RESTful DICOM server.


Dependencies
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The Web viewer is based upon the following projects:

* Cornerstone, a client-side JavaScript library to display medical
  images in Web browsers, by Chris Hafey <chafey@gmail.com>:
  https://github.com/chafey/cornerstone

* GDCM, an open-source implementation of the DICOM standard with
  advanced features for image decoding, by Mathieu Malaterre
  <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcm/


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/webviewer.html


Licensing
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The Web viewer plugin for Orthanc is 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"
}