Welcome to OpenREM’s documentation!

OpenREM is an opensource application for patient dose monitoring. The software is capable of importing and displaying data from a wide variety of x-ray dose related sources, and then enables easy export of the data in a form that is suitable for further analysis by suitably qualified medical physics personnel.

Please see openrem.org for more details.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Pre-installation preparations
  • Installing OpenREM
  • Offline Installation on Windows
  • Upgrading an existing installation
  • Databases
  • Web servers
  • Quick start: One page complete install
• Start all the services
  • Test web server
  • Celery task queue
  • Celery periodic tasks: beat
  • Configure the settings
  • Start using it - add some data!
  • Further instructions
• Configuration and adminstration
  • Delete objects configuration
  • Display names and user-defined modalities
  • Not-patient indicator settings
  • Patient identifiable data
  • Deleting studies
  • Adding patient size information from csv using the web interface
  • Adding patient size information from csv using the command line
• Importing data to OpenREM
  • From local DICOM files
  • Direct from modalities
  • Query-retrieve from a PACS or similar
• Navigating, filtering and study details
  • Navigating the OpenREM web interface
  • Filtering for specific studies
  • Setting the number of studies displayed per page
  • Viewing study details
• Charts
  • Chart types
  • Exporting chart data
  • Chart options
  • Chart types - CT
  • Chart types - radiography
  • Chart types - fluoroscopy
  • Chart types - mammography
  • Performance notes
• Skin dose maps
  • Functionality that is available
  • Skin dose map settings
  • Exporting data to openSkin
  • Instructions for openSkin
  • Limitations
• Exporting study information
  • Exporting to csv and xlsx sheets
  • Specific modality export information
  • Opening csv exports in Excel
• Troubleshooting
  • Server 500 errors
  • Unknown encoding errors
  • Invalid tag errors
  • Fixing accumulated AGD and laterality for Hologic DBT
  • Cumulative and continued study RDSRs
  • Log files
  • Starting again!
• Developers
  • DICOM import modules
  • Non-DICOM import modules
  • Export from database
  • Tools and helper modules
  • Models
  • Filtering code
  • Views
  • Export Views
  • Forms
  • DICOM networking modules
  • Adding new charts
  • Running the test suite
  • Indices and tables
• Previous Release Notes and Change Log
  • Version history change log
  • Release notes and upgrade instructions
  • Contributing authors
• Diagram of system components
  • Alternatives

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page