Developed in the Conquest project

Conquest DICOM software 1.4.15 released

September 29, 2009; Forum available from January 5, 2007
Within the EC Conquest project, a full featured DICOM server has been developed based on and heavily extending the public domain UCDMC DICOM code developed by Mark Oskin when he was at the Medical Center of the University of California at Davis.

The Conquest DICOM software was written by Marcel van Herk and Lambert Zijp at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.We have decided to provide our extended DICOM software also to the public domain.

Please check our new FORUM (kindly hosted by the K-PACS team). Some possible applications of the Conquest DICOM software are:

 DICOM training and testing
 Demonstration and research image archives
 Image format conversion from a scanner with DICOM network access
 DICOM image viewing and slide making
 DICOM image selection, (limited) editing, and splitting and merging of series
 Advanced scriptable image modification, filtering, forwarding and conversion
 DICOM caching and archive merging
 DICOM web access for viewing and data management (scriptable)

dicom browser

The built-in image browser of the Conquest DICOM server (Windows only)

web server simple web viewer

Web access to the Conquest DICOM server with Apache2, contains several viewers (Windows/Linux)


Features of the UCDMC DICOM software are:

Complete DICOM server offering storage, verification, query and retrieve with programmable SQL database tables. This user-programmable feature allows the MicroPACS to be custom tailored to a particular Clinical/Research area.

The server supports a wide range of databases with ODBC (Windows) or without (Windows/Linux), including DbaseIII, MySQL, Postgres and SqLite.


Some features added by the Conquest project are:

Fast error free and transparent compression (>2x) of image data on disk with NKI private or JPEG compression.

A database browser and slice viewer integrated in the PACS system with options for: viewing DICOM header, creating BMP files (ideal for slides), sending selected images, printing, database fix tools such as changing patient IDs, deleting and anonymizing studies and series, and splitting and merging series. Uses drag and drop to load DICOM and HL7 files.

A simple query/move user interface for diagnostic purposes, to improve your knowledge of DICOM, and to grab missing data from another server.

Elementary DICOM print server and client - prints to the default printer.

Correct display of JPEG and RLE compressed images in browser.

Flexible configuration of JPEG and NKI private compression with optional (de)compression of incoming, dropped, transmitted and archived files. The JPEG compression is done using executables from the OFFIS DICOM toolkit (DCMTK version 3.5.4), developed by Kuratorium OFFIS e.V.

A simple DICOM Modality Worklist implementation with HL7 import with configurable translation.

A CGI WEB interface with several possible viewers (especially important for the Linux version without a GUI).

The server can act as an advanced scriptable DICOM image forwarder and/or DICOM image cache.

The server integrates an advanced DICOM viewer based on K-PACS


Download for Windows: conquest

New features: 64 bit; postgres; improved virtual server performance; jpg images possible in web interface; multiframe support in serversideviewer; sequence access in scripting; anonymizationscript; better handling of corrupt DICOM files; [Version 1.4.14: New features: improved web pages and scripting, bug fixes; flexible import/export converters; Number of Study Related Instance queryable etc.] [Version 1.4.13: SqLite driver, jpeg and mysql driver in one package, auto setup database, delayed forwarders and prefetchers, more scripting commands, WEB viewer for IE, configure V2/DCM, configuration of deletion order, bug fixes. [Version 1.4.12c: Bug fixes, import converter, converter scripting, extensions to flexible filenamesyntax], [Version 1.4.12: better database performance, better control of forwarding, important bug fixes], [Version 1.4.11: K-Pacs viewer, native MySql driver, worklist fix, virtualserver fix, flexible filenamesyntax, WEBReadOnly, Fix forwarder retry logic], [version 1.4.10: Virtual server, Optional more debug info], [version 149a: GUI crash fix], [version 149: Modality Worklist, Linux and Web interface (fixes), faster retrieve, fixes in delete and nightly move, retry failed forwards, more JPEG fixes, built-in JPEG/RLE decompressor, downsize compressor, AE with ~xx sets compression, split/merge series, multiple UID query]

Download dicomserver1415.zip (8831 KB, Complete DICOM server + documentation + sample data)

Download bdeinstall5.zip (4022 KB, Borland Database Engine, optional for image browser part of the DICOM server)

Download dgate1415.zip (1314 KB, updated source code of the UCMDC/NKI DICOM server process, for windows)

Download dicomlib1415.zip (857 KB, updated source code of the UCMDC dicom library and sample client programs, for windows)

Service release updates (avoid rare db corruption on built-in dbaseIII driver for versions 1.4.10, 1.4.11, 1.4.12alpha, and 1.4.12 for Windows):

Download conquest_service_patches20070127.zip (1415 KB, fixed dgate.exe for versions before 1.4.12b and c)


Download for Linux, Solaris or OsX (compiles for 32/64 bit):

New features: MySQL support; better web viewers and data management, SqLite driver, delayed forwarders and prefetechers, more scripting commands, bug fixes. conquest

Download conquestlinux1415.tar.gz (3340 KB, binary and source of dicom server without GUI for Linux, Unix)

Download jpegsuplinux1415.zip (1081 KB, OFFIS DICOM toolkit DCMTK JPEG (de)compression binaries + documentation; required for JPEG support under Linux)


Contact, ConQuest DICOM server and extensions to MicroPACS

Lambert Zijp and Marcel van Herk
Radiotherapy department
The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Please check first our new FORUM (kindly hosted by the K-PACS team).
Fax: +31-20-6691101 / Email: zijp@nki.nl or portal@nki.nl

Technical Contact, original MicroPACS (no longer active)

Mark Oskin
UC Davis Medical Center
PACS Research and Development Lab.
(916)734-0308 / FAX (916)734-0316 / Email: mhoskin@ucdavis.edu

Administrative / Licensing Contact, original MicroPACS

Richard L. Kennedy
UC Davis Medical Center
(916)734-7267 / FAX (916)734-0316 / Email: rlkennedy@ucdavis.edu

Copyright (c) 2008 The Netherlands Cancer Institute. Developed by Marcel van Herk, Lambert Zijp and Jan Meinders; the Netherlands Cancer Institute; Radiotherapy Department

Copyright (c) 1995 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Developed by: Mark Oskin, mhoskin@ucdavis.edu; University of California, Davis Medical Center; Department of Radiology with a Solaris port done and maintained by: Terry Rosenbaum; Michigan State University; Department of Radiology.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of California, Davis. The name of the University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.



Please first check our new FORUM (kindly hosted by the K-PACS team). E-mail for comments, bug reports and requests: zijp@nki.nl

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