Burn DICOM CD-ROMs

The program allows the user to create and burn a DICOM CD-R (anonymized or not), from series that have been already opened. The program adds to the CD-R a nice, free DICOM Viewer that allows the patient and/or physician to view the patient's images. As the program is compatible with all modalities and all manufacturers, the user can create a multi-modality, multi-manufacturer DICOM CD-ROM, that contains all patient's studies.


The burning CD-R procedure:

• Open all series you want to burn in a CD-R
• Select from menu the command "FileSendSend to DICOM CD-R". A dialog box is appeared and allows you to select the desired series. You can select more than one series by holding down the <Control> key of the keyboard and selecting many series. 
• The program asks you if you wish to anonymize the files. Press the "Anonymize" or "Don't Anonymize" button.
• The program creates a DICOMDIR file for the selected series and burns the CD-R which contains also the free Sante DICOM Viewer CDR.

The "Anonymize" Dialog box
The program asks you if you wish to anonymize the files. Press the "Anonymize" or "Don't Anonymize" button.



Rectangles button:
Allows the user to set up to four rectangles which will be filled with the background color, in order to remove burned-in annotations, from all frames of the file. The program automatically selects the color of the upper-left pixel of each rectangle as the background color for this rectangle.

• x1, y1: Specify the upper left corner of each rectangle.
• x2, y2: Specify the down-right corner of each rectangle.
• Clear button: Clears the x1,y1,x2,y2 values.
• Save button: Saves the rectangles to registry.
• Load button: Loads the previously saved rectangles from the registry.

Options button
The dialog box below will be appeared, and allows you to select the specific fields which will be removed from the file?s header.

OK button: Accepts the user selection, and closes this dialog box.
Cancel button: Cancels the selection, and closes this dialog box.
Help button: Displays this help topic.
Check all button: Press this button to select all fields for removing.
Uncheck all button: Press this button to deselect all fields from removing.
Show attention message when critical fields have not been removed because of this setup:
Enable this option to allow the program to generate a warning message, when you attempt an anonymizing and there are critical fields which remain on file?s header, because of this setup.
Show attention message when burned-in annotation flag (0x0028,0x0301) is set:
Enable this option to allow the program to generate a warning message, when the file?s header indicates that there are burned-in annotations on the images, because in this case the header anonymizing is not enough to protect patient information.
Remove all private "PN" tags: Enable this option to allow the program to remove all "PN" tags from the header, either they are nested inside sequences, or they are tags which belong to machine vendor.


The free Sante DICOM Viewer CDR