Apply AETitle

[celine18]

Hello!

I am developping a java application, making query/retrieve. To take images from the pacs, my application needs to have an AETitle. Unfortunately, I don't know how to apply an aetitle to my application. Is there a function in DICOM Toolkit which enables to do that ?

Thanks...

[Marco Eichelberg]

In most of the network tools in DCMTK, you have command line options such as --aetitle (to set the application's calling application entity title) and --call (to set the called application entity title) in the A-ASSOCIATE-RQ message that initiates the DICOM network association. The corresponding functions in the network module can be found in dcmtk/dcmnet/assoc.h

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OFCondition 
ASC_setAPTitles(
    T_ASC_Parameters * params,
    const char* callingAPTitle,
    const char* calledAPTitle,
    const char* respondingAPTitle);

OFCondition 
ASC_getAPTitles(
    T_ASC_Parameters * params,
    char* callingAPTitle,
    char* calledAPTitle,
    char* respondingAPTitle);

The functions operate on a T_ASC_Parameters structure, which essentially is the package in which all data that is needed to assemble an A-ASSOCIATE-RQ PDU is collected before the connection as such is opened.

[celine18]

I am sorry, but I didn't understand very well when and how I set the AETitle?
Is there a command line I have to do before my findscu and movescu in order to initiate the network?? Which one ? How to send the A-ASSOCIATE-RQ message?
Because if I only add "--aetitle MY_AETITLE" to the command movescu, of course it still doesn't work, even if I configured the PACS, which knows the IP adress and the port corresponding to this AETitle...
Thank you...

[Marco Eichelberg]

If you are using movescu as a command line tool, then there are three command line options to set the various AEtitles, as documented in the manual page:

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    -aet  --aetitle              aetitle: string
                                 set my calling AE title (default: MOVESCU)
    -aec  --call                 aetitle: string
                                 set called AE title of peer (default: ANY-SCP)
    -aem  --move                 aetitle: string
                                 set move destinat. AE title (default: MOVESCU)

[celine18]

Thank you! but it still doesn't work!! Can you tell me what corresponds to the parameter dcmfile_in of the function movescu? is it the file I want to take?
Can I specify the directory where I want the image to be sent?

[Jörg Riesmeier]

Can you tell me what corresponds to the parameter dcmfile_in of the function movescu? is it the file I want to take?

First of all, read the documentation.

Can I specify the directory where I want the image to be sent?

The images that are received by the movescu are stored in the current working directory, if this was your question.