DCMPPS - DICOM MPPS class library and SCP

Description

The module DCMPPS implements a DICOM Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS) SCP based on an MPPS class library. MPPS objects are stored and maintained in DICOM file format in a specific file system directory and can be evaluated by other applications. DCMPPS keeps track of each created MPPS object, thus guaranteeing that each object can be created only once and that only existing objects can be updated by an SCU.

Features in detail

DCMPPS supports the following features:

• Receipt of arbitrary MPPS messages and storage of the corresponding MPPS object in file
• If desired, only messages from "known" SCUs are accepted
• Extensive checking of incoming messages for completeness and validity
• Compatiblity options for specific modalities
• Single and multi process mode (multiple simultanous connections)
• Options for tweaking DICOM network communication parameters

DCMPPS is based on the OFFIS DICOM-Toolkit DCMTK and is available in different versions: There is a binary version as well as a source code variant. DCMPPS supports different flavours of UNIX (e. g. Linux 2.4 or MacOS X) as well as Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP.

The class library included in the source code release of DCMPPS allows for easy exchange of the file system destination by a database engine.