DcmEye iOS User Guide

This Guide is for DcmEye iOS 1.x

http://www.moby.cn/dcmeye/docs/dcmeye_ug.pdf

Moby Software

v.1.4.2 2011-10-17

IMPORTANT NOTE

DCMEYE APPLICATION IS ONLY FOR EVALUTE DICOM TECHNOLOGIES, NOT FOR MEDICAL OR CLINICAL PURPOSE! YOU SHOULD USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

1. What is DcmEye?

DcmEye is a DICOM 3.0 viewer on iPhone/iPod Touch4. DcmEye support iTunes (Version 9.1+ MUST) file sharing feature, by which you could put DICOM file into its document root directory. DcmEye DICOM networking will help you find and retrieve study remotely. DcmEye’s DICOM engine is based on DCMTK (http://www.dcmtk.org).

DcmEye Features:

1) Autoscan document root directory for DICOM 3.0 files (file extention with .dcm)

2) DICOM 3.0 file with DICOM IOD’s (Image Types) US,CT,MR,CR,DX,NM,XA.

3) RLE loseless, JPEG compression support

4) Bundle with a test DICOM file

5) Multi-frame display with slide bar

6) DICOM networking, retrieve study remotely

Prerequests:

iPhone 3GS/4/4GS/iPod Touch4 (will call iOS device below ) with iOS 4.3+

iTunes 9.1+(better iTunes 10) installed and well configured with iOS

A valid app store account to purchase DcmEye

2. Installation

You could Search DcmEye on App Store , or with iTunes store.

After downloading and installation, you would find a DcmEye icon on your iOD device panel.

Click the DcmEye icon to enter the application, touch Files , you could find at least one dicom file (named test), which was created by DcmEye bundle for test purpose.

Tap the test item on left popup table, DcmEye will load and display the image. If the file could not be interpreted, the view plane is left blank.

3. Usage

3.1 Upload file to iOS device with DcmEye

This section will introduce you how to use iTunes file sharing feature to add DICOM files to DcmEye and how to use DcmEye .

Before you start, you should prepare a few DICOM 3.0 files and make sure all have the .dcm extention. If You don’t have , refer to chapter 4 to download some DICOM 3.0 datasets.

Make sure iTunes 9.1+ was installed on you system (Windows or MacOSX). This guide will use Snow Leopard with ITune 10 to show how to add DICOM file to DcmEye .

Make sure iOS device is power on and connect right with you MacBook. Open iTunes application from you MacBook launch panel. Then click iOS device logo, go to application tab, scroll down. From left list, click DcmEye ,

Right tab will show what current document exist on DcmEye in your iOS device. Click Add.. button, it will pop up a dialog

Select one or more files and make sure have .dcm file extention, then click open button

The iTunes will automate load these file to DcmEye document root.

Open the DcmEye, you could reach a little longer list, tap the item to test.

File Delete

[iOS device]: Tap ‘file’ button go to file list table view. On which item, just slide right to show a red ‘Delete’ button, click that button will remove the item

[iTunes]: While iTunes connected, selecting a file and press delete key on you Mac PC. It will prompt a confirm dialog, click yes to delete.

3.2 Gesture on Image

Pinch gesture on the image to zoom in/out

Pan gesture on image will move the image in the view.

Tap to test a multi frame DICOM file, title end with “[CurrentFrame/TotalFrame] “.

Navigating multi-frame file with top slide bar. Initial frame is centered on the ( TotalFrame/2 +1) frame.

3.3 DICOM networking

Before you using DICOM Network, make sure your device is connect wirelessly with LAN or Internet.

Tap top ‘Setting’ button to enter DICOM network page,

3.3.1 DICOM Network setting

Server : set remote peer DICOM device or PACS server with SCP implementation(Echo/Find/Move or Get). You could usr IPv4 address ( 192.168.1.123)or Hostname (www.dicomserver.co.uk)

Port: set peer DICOM SCP port (104,11112,etc).

Called AE Title: set peer DICOM AE Title, such as ‘DCM4CHEE’,’ SERVERAE’

Local AETitle: set local AT Title of DcmEye, default is ‘IPODAE’

TimeOut(s): DICOM networking time out in second, if your network is slow, try to use a big value

Study Retrieve Method : choose weather GET SCU or MOVE SCU. Default

setting is GET, which could deal with the internet DICOM server and firewall (NAT) problem. If you retrieve study inside a LAN or DICOM server does not support GET SCP (MOVE SCP is a MUST), switch to Move.

Table 3.1 will give some guide on setting with server

DICOM implementation	MOVE	GET
DCM4CHEE	Yes	Yes
ClearCanvas	Yes	No
www.dicomserver.co.uk	Yes	Yes

If all the parameters is well configured, you could go back to top page, and tap the ‘Network’ button

3.3.2 DICOM Network Page

Patient Name: ‘Jerry^Liu’, ‘ *’, ‘ An*’

Patient ID: ‘123’, ‘12*’, ‘*’

Study Modality: choose a modality filter or ALL without

Click ‘Find’ button, turn to the study find result page

Click an item on the table, will show the detail info about this study and ask if you want to retrieve the study to local files. If you click OK, it will take a few second to download.

If all is ok, you could back to main DcmEye page, touch ‘FILES’ button to check, weather some new file will be there.

3.4 Help and About

Tap the ‘Help’ button, it will turn to a WEB help.

Tap the lower “i” button , it will turn to an about page.

4. Test DICOM 3.0 Dataset

1) Medical Image Samples(Sébastien Barré )

http://barre.nom.fr/medical/samples/index.html

mirror

http://www.moby.cn/dcmeye/samples/

2) NEMA DataSet

ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/Multiframe/

ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/DataSets/WG16/

3) More and More

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=Sample_DataSet