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OpenEye 1.0.0 Setup

 

Requirements

OpenEYE is a DICOM Display Workstation and has pretty heavy requirements depending on it's use. For a proper use of the program at least 2 High resolution monitors are needed, a third service monitor (lower resolution) is optional but can be useful for the SR Document creation or the MARiS RIS interface.

A fast processor is a must, possibly a HyperThreaded such as PentiumD or core Duo, especially if you are working with large images (CR, DX, MG) or 3D. If you work with large 3D datasets, be sure to have enough memory to hold all the series of a study in memory.

Anyway you can also try OpenEye with a minimum configuration even on notebooks.

Setup

Download the two files (part1 and part2) and extract them in the same folder. This is use only for the first installation, because to update to the current version you can download only part2.

To perform the installation process you must have administration privileges on you PC.

Before installing check that the default XP Firewall is disabled or enable the TCP/IP port for the DICOM Service (default 104), sometimes also Antivirus softwares are annoying.

An installation script 'Setup.vbs' is available to completely automate the installation process. The performed steps are:

  1. Stop system services installed by previous installation of OpenEye

  2. Install and start the Firebird 2.0.1 SQL server (http://www.firebirdsql.org/).

  3. Install the Firebird ODBC driver

  4. Install the Intel Performance Libraries dll (IPP)

  5. Install the OpenEye main program

  6. Reboot

For each of these steps accept all the default values except if you know what you're doing.

Before launching OpenEye you must specify the monitor configuration of your machine manually editing the registry (see next point).

Registry Configuration

Use the regedit utility to perform the next steps.

Monitor configuration.

Check the monitor numbering opening the screen properties and pressing 'Identify'..

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Studio Synthesis SA\DcmMG\LeftMonitor=”1” - String Value of the left monitor identification number

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Studio Synthesis SA\DcmMG\RightMonitor=”2” - String Value of the right monitor identification number

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Studio Synthesis SA\DcmMG\SRMonitor=”3” - String Value of the service monitor identification number

Toolbar Icon Size.

You can configure the icons size for the toolbars by choosing from the following possible values: 32, 48 and 64.

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Studio Synthesis SA\DcmMG\IconWidth=”32” string value, 32, 48 and 64

Enabled Modalities

You can fine tune which modalities you want to enable/disable by editing the ViewModalities registry key, you shall use the DICOM Coded values.

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Studio Synthesis SA\DcmMG\ViewModalities = “'MG','CR','OT','DX','MR','CT','SR','SC','US','PT','XA','NM'”

DICOM Settings and User configuration

All configurations are made through DcmServiceCfg.exe, the first time you launch it the default user/password tuple is 'root/root', you can change this setting using the 'Users' tab.

Following are some hints for the settings, being all other fields of the form self explanatory.

Users

Use Window Login: if the user login is the same as the windows user name no login popup is displayed.

Administration

Auto Del Policy: the policy for automatic deletionion of exams on the local disk. If you work with a PACS you should set this to 'Last Accessed' and set the maximum age to the average life time of an exam. Having the exams on the local storage allows much faster access to previous studies.

Dicom Nodes

Image Archive [exclusive]: the default long term storage for images (see IHE profiles), generated SOPs (SR, KIN, PR and SC) are sent to this manager. We are working to split the Image Archive from the Report Manager.

Local Server

For best performance when loading images check 'Decode DICOM Compressed Syntaxes'

 


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