C-FIND DCM Study Date Range

[parisisal]

Hi,
I want send to the PACS a CFIND Message and retrieve all the studies included ina date range (eg. from 01/01/2011 to 01/06/2011)

Now I can retrieve only the studies to a specific date (01/01/2011).

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	DcmDataset req; 
	req.putAndInsertOFStringArray(DCM_QueryRetrieveLevel, "STUDY");  
	req.putAndInsertOFStringArray(DCM_StudyInstanceUID, "");
	req.putAndInsertOFStringArray(DCM_PatientName, "");
	req.putAndInsertOFStringArray(DCM_StudyDate, "20110101");

There is a way to specify a date range ?

[Michael Onken]

Hi,

what you want is called Range Matching in the DICOM standard (look for it in part 4). Just do it like this

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req.putAndInsertOFStringArray(DCM_StudyDate, "20110101-20110131"); 

Note that also the following is possible ...

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req.putAndInsertOFStringArray(DCM_StudyDate, "20110101-"); 

... to look for study from beginning of 2011 up to now; and

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req.putAndInsertOFStringArray(DCM_StudyDate, "-20110131"); 

for every study that was acquired before Feburary 2011.

Every server must support this kind of matching for date and time values.

Michael

[parisisal]

Thank you very much