The "DICOM Network" menu enables the configuration and execution of Dicom related functionality. It allows the user to turn spectrIm-QMRS into be a Dicom network listener which can handle Dicom network traffic, and it also enables automatic Dicom-file renaming based upon Dicom tags.
This allows you to define the network node properties of the local host (that is the computer spctrIm-QMRS is running) as well as the DICOM-nodes which spectrIm-QMRS can exchange DICOM information by the DICOM-network protocol.
If selecting this menu option, the following popup will be shown:
The user has to enter the IP-properties the local host:
Please note that the DICOM protocol uses static IP-addresses and no adresses obtained by DHCP can be used. The reason is that with DHCP your IP-address can change after reboot. Ask your network administrator for a static IP-address, if you do not already have one.
Also note that DICOM trafic is only possible if on the sending DICOM node (for instance the console of your MR-scanner), as well as on the receiving DICOM node (in this case spectrIn-QMRS running PC) are registered as allowed and valid Dicom-service to be called. The AEtitle is a string which can be regarded as the name of a Dicom service which can be called.
In order to be able to use the DICOM transfer you need to know the IP-address, AEtitle, and port number of the (scanners/PACS/satelite consoles) you would like to establish network Dicom transfer between. In the above figure the DICOM node is your MR_MR_SCANNER_NETWORK_NAME (facultative: may be defined or not, but an identifying string that a user can associate with a known network node or scanner is sometimes helpful). The IP, port number and the AEtitle, on the other hand, are obligatory and must be defined.
Ask your network administrator or the manufacturer of your scanner to add your spectrIm-QMRS node to the list of enabled DICOM services on the scanner. If you do, you save a lot of time transferring images and MRS(I) data to process.