Qnap: Orthanc Lightweight DICOM Server for NAS

Qnap Systems, Inc. announced the release of Orthanc for the company’s NAS.

The Orthanc project provides a free and open-source ecosystem that turns the firm’s NAS into a picture archiving and communication system (PACS). Designed for healthcare environments, it improves medical imaging flows. With all DICOM images conveniently stored in your NAS – coupled with the advanced web-based DICOM viewer –  image analysis is simplified.

“With Orthanc support, we aim to extend the functionality of QNAP NAS to cover the medical industry. A QNAP NAS can now act as a PACS backup server for doctors and researchers to archive their DICOM images on a secure and expandable storage solution. With network accessibility, Orthanc on QNAP NAS provides an extremely convenient solution for users to view the DICOM images from anywhere.” said Aseem Manmualiya, product manager, Qnap.

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Users can transfer DICOM images to the NAS by drag and drop, and can query patient images by using a patient ID, name or study description. For each study, there is a DICOM image viewer for users to view and analyze DICOM images.

Orthanc is available to download from the QTS App Center.

System requirements :

• Orthanc is available for all x86-based NAS models with QTS 4.3 (and later).

• Orthanc is currently only available with the English language.