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NumaLink-3.0™ Version 2
Users Guide and Service Manual
April 2004
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Part Number 900-000201-001 © Copyright 2004 by Numa, Inc. All Rights Reserved PROPRIETARY RIGHTS NOTICE No part of this material may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, including photocopying and recording or in connection with any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from Numa I
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Table of Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................3 2. Installation and Getting Started.............................................................................................................4 2.1 HARDWARE................................................
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 1. Introduction “ Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” Blaise Pascal NumaLink-3.0 is an OEM-to-OEM nuclear medicine image translator that supports translation among a number of OEM data formats. NumaLink-3.0 also provides translation to the DICOM 3.0 standard for nuclear medicine as well
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 2. Installation and Getting Started 2.1 Hardware Your NumaLink-3.0 system hardware should be installed by an authorized service engineer. Please contact Numa for more information. Typical hardware for a NumaLink-3.0 system is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 – NumaLink-3.0 Hardware Configuration AC Monitor To analog telephone Modem Line outlet Video Network ACPower strip H
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 2. The monitor cable should be plugged into the video card on the NumaLink computer. This is usually color-coded blue, and has a picture of a monitor next to it. 3. The keyboard and mouse cables are color-coded purple and green, respectively. Plug these into the appropriately labeled outlets on the back of the system. 4. For modem line cabling setup, please refer to section 5.2.
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 2.2 Software This section applies only if you are installing NumaLink-3.0 software on a system that is not installed and configured by Numa. NumaLink-3.0 can be installed on Windows 98, windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. To install NumaLink-3.0 on your system, execute the following image: NumaLink-3.0_.exe 1. Read the welcome window; press “Next”. 2. Enter the name
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Version: A1 Licensee: Numa, Inc — INTERNAL USE ONLY, ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED Expires: June 1, 2000 CHECKSUM: ++9GZCZW3J8VWSEQ9QSQNZRZCOOHT5VJPY— Numa license ends If an appropriate license cannot be found, a message is displayed as shown in Figure 3. Contact Numa immediately if you have any problems with your NumaLink-3.0 licenses. Figure 3 – License Err
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 3. Product Overview In general, NumaLink-3.0 discovers nuclear medicine image files in one OEM format that are placed in a configured input directory, and translates them to image files in another OEM format in a configured output directory. While performing this translation, it makes use of various directories in a work directory tree. This flow is shown in Figure 4. Figu
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual The entire work directory tree is purged periodically of files that are older than a certain number of days, as specified in the general translator configuration. As a rule, NumaLink-3.0 does not specify how the image files get to the input directory, or what happens to them after they are written to the output directory. (In many cases, Numa can provide utilities that facilit
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 2. If one or more input files are found, NumaLink-3.0 schedules a file stability check, sleeps for a file stability delay period and proceeds to step 3. 3. If the input files are stable, NumaLink-3.0 proceeds to step 4; if not, it schedules a directory check, then sleeps and goes to step 1. 4. NumaLink-3.0: a. reads the stable files and maps all information in them to an intermedi
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 4. Configuration To start the NumaLink-3.0 GUI, double-click on the following executable image: \Program Files\Numa\NumaLink\NumaLink.exe 4.1 General Figure 6 shows the NumaLink-3.0 Graphic User Interface (GUI) with its General configuration tab. Each configuration item is described in Table 4-1 – General Configuration Settings . Figure 6 – General Confi
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Full path for the NumaLink-3.0 configuration file. The configuration file is the repository of all information provided on the Translations tab (section Error! Reference source not found.). This file is best left under control of Config. File the NumaLink-3.0 GUI; in some circumstances, you may need to modify it manually to access features that are not yet supported by the GUI (se
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Port 104 This information can me modified by editing the file C:\Program Files\Numa\NumaStore\ini\numastore.ini and appropriately editing the following lines: AE_Title=NumaLink_3_0 ListenPort=104 (In a future release, these modifications will be supported directly in the NumaLink-3.0 GUI.) (DICOM by Merge) 4.2 Translations Figure 7 shows the Translations t
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Figure 7 – Translations Tab Table 4-2 – Translations Settings Item Description A list of currently configured translations. To copy, modify or delete an Translations existing translation, first select the translation from this list A descriptive label associated with the translations. (These labels are Label displayed in the Translations list box.) A drop down list of
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual The number of seconds to wait, after translation input files have been Stability delay detected, to determine whether they are stable. (See section 3.1 for more information.) Post-translation An application (executable image, script, etc) that is executed after work is application done for this translation. Create a new translation, setting its parameters from the selected existi
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Figure 8 – DICOM dialog Table 4-3 – DICOM Settings Item Description Output format (Read only) Output format specified for this translation. If checked, the translation results in a DICOM store request to all remote AEs that are associated with the translation. Otherwise, the translation Perform DICOM Store results in one or more DICOM Part 10 files written to the transla
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual Cancel Quit the dialog without applying changes For more information on DICOM AEs, refer to the following: • NumaLink-3.0 DICOM Conformance Statement C:\Program Files\Numa\Documents\ NumaLink-3.0 Conformance Statement.doc • Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) 3.0 http://medical.nema.org/dicom.html 4.3 Status Error! Reference source not fou
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual The Clear Status Window button clears existing messages form the Status window; it does not affect the audit log. Page 18 of 33
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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual 5. Technical Support 5.1 Logging and Error Reporting NumaLink-3.0 logs messages that indicate the progress of translations; these messages can also help in understanding and resolving translation problems. You can see the messages in two ways: 1. Messages from the current translation session are shown in the Status tab of the NumaLink-3.0 GUI; see section 4.3. 2. Mes
