Consciously retrieving duplicates

[CS Tima]

Hi everyone, 

maybe this could help others too.

We are using a script to retrieve DICOM data from our archives, querying every 30min or so. It is based on this example script. Unfortunately we missed dose information sporadically. 

Now we have a suspicion:

Perhaps the problem was, that we did not allow the script to retrieve duplicates. The background of this suspicion is that we have 24h operation in cardiology and interventional radiology. Those interventions often take hours and the dose report is created at the end.

If we try to retrieve dose information before the end of the intervention and switch off the retrieving of duplicates, perhaps we miss the dose report entirely.

We are now testing the same script with the option -dup:

Retrieve duplicates (objects that have been processed before)

We will see what happens. Wanted to share to the community and ask if this makes sense.

KR,

Charles

[dpla...@gmail.com]

Hi Charles, 

Is your script asking to retrieve only studies from the previous half an hour? If so that could be the problem.

If a cardiology study starts at 09:00 then the study time in the DICOM radiation dose structured report will be 09:00. The study may take hours to complete. At the end of the study an RDSR is created and sent to PACS. Your next scheduled script will not retrieve the 09:00 study if it is only trying to retrieve studies with a study time within the previous 30 mins.

Our cardiology labs and interventional x-ray rooms are configured to send RDSRs directly to OpenREM.

Kind regards, 

David