Controlling the Dicom Viewer via PACS or 3rd party software

The viewer can be started automatically by any other software by calling 'dicomviewer.exe'. When passing folders as arguments to the viewer, it will automatically start searching these folders and sub-folders for Dicom files. All Dicom files found (images and/or runs), are displayed immediately in the overview window. You can pass multiple folders which will be searched in the order you enter them.
Opening image files is also possible, just pass them as parameters in the same way as the folders.

For example:
1. 'DicomViewer.exe d:\images' will start searching this folder and sub-folders
2. 'DicomViewer.exe d:\images\patientX\cine01.dcm' will open this image file
3. 'DicomViewer.exe d:\images e:\dicomstuff d:\images\patientY\cine02.dcm' will search both folders and open the image file

There is no maximum limit passed arguments. NB: don't forget to pass folders and/or filenames which contain spaces, between quotes: 'Dicomviewer.exe "d:\images folder\image nr 1.dcm" '.

To refresh the overview display of a folder, call the viewer again, with the same or a different folder. The Dicom Viewer will stop any other possible searches it may still be running and start searching the new folder. See example 1. You can pass virtually an unlimited number of folders.

To terminate the viewer, call it with '-quit'. F.e. 'DicomViewer.exe -quit'. Do NOT pass any other arguments with this command.

Upon installation, the environment variable 'RuboDicomViewer' is created, pointing to the installation folder of the Dicom Viewer. By default, this is folder 'C:\Program Files\DicomViewer'.