Configuring PACS Store and Remember archiving

PACS Store and Remember archiving is used in two circumstances:

• When an external PACS system is used as the primary archive device (when the IMPAX system has no archive hardware)

• As additional storage in a cluster with separate archive servers connected to other archive types; for example, separate hub and spoke IMPAX clusters (two or more) or an external PACS with current or historical image data

In general terms, PACS Store and Remember archiving works the same way as other archiving. You configure the archiving based on the station, Autopilot creates STORE jobs based on the archiving settings, and studies are retrieved via RETRIEVE jobs. A Store and Remember queue is managed like any other queue in the Administration Tools.

With PACS Store and Remember archiving, the MVF_SCU process handles the archiving instead of a separate archive process. And with PACS Store and Remember archives, STORE jobs are done via DICOM C-STORE and RETRIEVE jobs are done via DICOM C-MOVE.