Orthanc® is a lightweight DICOM server with web interface for healthcare and medical research. It is designed to improve the DICOM flows in hospitals and to support research about the automated analysis of medical images. Orthanc® lets its users focus on the content of the DICOM files, hiding the complexity of the DICOM format and of the DICOM protocol.

This server is adapted for AWS, it can be connected with AWS S3 storage. It uses the HTTPS encryption protocol for the web interface without the need to assign a domain name.

Areas of use:

• Medical institutions, healthcare.

• Easy-to-use. After launching, the server is immediately operational. No server setup required for the simplest use.
• Can act as a server and a client at the same time.
• A convenient web interface.
• HTTPS protocol for web interface even if the domain name is not assigned.
• Ports: 8042 - web interface, 4242 - DICOM
• Possibility to connect with AWS S3 for storing uploaded files.
• Contains additional plugins of recent versions as of February 2024.

• Authorization. Advanced authorization plugin for Orthanc. (additional settings is required)
• Connectivity-checks. Utilities to check connectivity to DICOM modalities, DICOMweb servers and Orthanc peers. (additional settings is required)
• Delayed-deletion. Plugin removing files from storage asynchronously.
• Dicom-Web. Implementation of DICOMweb (QIDO-RS, STOW-RS and WADO-RS) and WADO-URI.
• GDCM. Decoder/transcoder of medical images using GDCM.
• Housekeeper. Optimizes your DB and storage.
• Indexer. Synchronize Orthanc with directories containing DICOM files.
• Multitenant-dicom. Multitenant plugin for Orthanc.
• MySQL-index. Stores the Orthanc index into a MySQL database.
• MySQL-storage. Stores the Orthanc storage area into a MySQL database.
• Neuro. Add support for NIfTI in Orthanc.
• OHIF plugin for Orthanc.
• Orthanc-Explorer-2. Advanced User Interface for Orthanc.
• Osimis-Web-Viewer. Provides a Web viewer of DICOM series within Orthanc.
• S3. Connection to AWS S3 for storing uploaded files. (additional settings is required)
• Serve-folders. Serve additional folders with Orthanc. (additional settings is required)
• STL plugin for Orthanc.
• Stone-Webviewer.
• TCIA. Interface with TCIA (The Cancer Imaging Archive).
• Transfers. Accelerates transfers and provides storage commitment between Orthanc peers.
• Kitware's VolView for Orthanc.
• Web-Viewer. Provides a Web viewer of DICOM series within Orthanc.
• Worklists. Serve DICOM modality worklists from a folder with Orthanc.
• WSI. Provides a Web viewer of whole-slide microscopic images within Orthanc.