Orthanc - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server

General Information

General information about this software can be found on its official Website: http://www.orthanc-server.com/

The instructions for building Orthanc can be found in the "INSTALL" file.

Supported Platforms

Currently, the supported platforms are:

• Linux 32bit.
• Linux 64bit.
• Windows 32bit.

Supported Toolchains

Orthanc can currently be built using the following compiling toolchains:

• Native Linux compilation, with gcc.
• Native Windows compilation, with Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Cross-compilation for Windows under Linux, with MinGW.

Licensing

Orthanc is licensed under the GPLv3 license, with the OpenSSL exception: http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

We also kindly ask scientific works and clinical studies that make use of Orthanc to cite Orthanc in their associated publications. Similarly, we ask open-source and closed-source products that make use of Orthanc to warn us about this use. You can cite our work using the following BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{Jodogne:ISBI2013, author = {Jodogne, S. and Bernard, C. and Devillers, M. and Lenaerts, E. and Coucke, P.}, title = {Orthanc -- {A} Lightweight, {REST}ful {DICOM} Server for Healthcare and Medical Research}, booktitle={Biomedical Imaging ({ISBI}), {IEEE} 10th International Symposium on}, year={2013}, pages={190-193}, ISSN={1945-7928}, month=apr, url={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6556444}, address={San Francisco, {CA}, {USA}} }

Licensing of special directories

The following directories have separate licensing terms:

• The file of the "Core/SQLite/" directory are licensed under the 3-clause BSD license, as they are derived from the Chromium project.

Content

This archive contains the following directories:

• Core/ - The core C++ classes (independent of DCMTK)
• OrthancExplorer/ - Code of the Web application (HTML5/Javascript)
• OrthancServer/ - Code of the Orthanc server (depends on DCMTK)
• Plugins/ - Code of the plugin framework
• Resources/ - Scripts, resources for building third-party code
• UnitTestsSources/ - Unit tests

This archive contains the following files:

• AUTHORS - The list of the authors
• CMakeLists.txt - The main build script
• COPYING - The GPLv3 license
• INSTALL - How to build Orthanc
• README - This file
• THANKS - The list of the contributors
• NEWS - The history of main changes between versions

We have decided not to maintain a separate "ChangeLog" file. Each commit to the official Orthanc Mercurial repository should be associated with a description of the changes.