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Q: How can I purchase DICOM Detective or DICOM Anonymizer&Masker, What is the pricing?
A: To purchase DICOM Detective or DICOM Anonymizer&Masker, please click here.
Q: I am a non-commercial user, how can I get a free full licensed DICOM Detective?
A: Non-commercial user can request a full licensed DICOM Detective.
The DICOM Detective is issued in CD only. The non-commercial user should pay the postage and handle fee (40 US dollars) for delivery.
Please download the Non-commercial Software License Agreement. You should read it carefully, sign it and mail it back to us.For detail, please click here.
Q: How to use the DICOM Detective to analyze the DICOM communication?
A: The DICOM Detective works with a network monitor tool. You should get a network monitor tool first. E.g. A free tool called Ethereal is available at http://www.ethereal.com or http://www.wireshark.org. And some commercial tools are also available like: Sniffer Pro 4.5, Distinct Network Monitor 4.2 or greater (use *.dmn files) at http://www.distinct.com , Shomiti Surveyor 2.4 or greater (use snoop file format) at http://www.magellan-net.de/shomiti/surveyor.html .
You should use the network monitor tool to capture the DICOM communication and save the capture data to a file (A useful link tell us how to use Ethereal and TCP Dump for DICOM ). Then you should open the capture file with DICOM Detective and analyze or reproduce the DICOM communication according to the user manual .
Q: Do I need to install the DICOM Detective on the two devices for troubleshooting?
No, you don't need to install DICOM Detective to you PACS or modalities. What DICOM Detective needs is just the network capture file from a network monitor tool. But usually, you should install the network monitor tool in one side of the communication peers, that will ensure you will not lose any packages.
Q: How can I use the simulator?
A: To make simulator work, you should:
1. Capture the communication between 2 peers using a network monitor tool (Ethereal). Suppose that you will simulate the archive server to demonstrate a strange behavior of the modality (or server) to the vender. So you have to capture the C-STORE between the modality and achieve server.
2. Connect you PC with DICOM Detective installed to the network so that it can interact with the modality.
2. Open the capture file using DICOM Detective (using Menu: File->Open a Capture File)
3. To simulate the archive server, click the Simulator-SCP tab, enter a port number. Click start button.
4. Then the DICOM Detective is ready.
5. Go to the modality, set up the IP and port for DICOM Detective, treat it as a archive server. Using same setting as what is set for the real archive server.
6. Do the exactly same operation and send the same image to DICOM Detective.
7. Then it will reproduce the DICOM Communication for you.
The key point is that you should use same setting and operate in the same way to make sure that the modality sends the same data to DICOM Detective. To tell if you are using the same setting and operate in the same way, there is a simple way. It is that you just capture the communication between the modality and the DICOM Detective and compare this communication with the previous one (by seeing the tags using DICOM Detective). If data sent by the modality are different, the simulator will not work. DICOM Detective just reproduce the DICOM Communication happened last time for you.