Conditions

Conditions may be required in the following configurations of the archive

• Archive Attribute Coercion - Legacy
• Archive Attribute Coercion - New
• Archive Compression Rule
• Export Rule
• Export Priors Rule
• MPPS Forward Rule
• Store Access Control ID Rule
• Study Retention Policy
• UPS on Store rules
• UPS on UPS Completed rules

and on

• Archive Device Extension - HL7 Procedure Status Update Attribute Conditions
• Archive AE Extension - HL7 Procedure Status Update Attribute Conditions

allowing users to perform certain operations, when

• Sending and / or Receiving hostnames and application entities
• Any of the DICOM attributes in the incoming and / or outgoing datasets

match specific values or follow a certain pattern.

Formats

A condition can be specified in one of the following formats such as :

• SendingApplicationEntityTitle[!]={value}
• SendingHostname[!]={value}
• ReceivingApplicationEntityTitle[!]={value}
• ReceivingHostname[!]={value}
• {AttributeTagOrKeyword[number]}[!]={value}
• {SequenceTagOrKeyword.AttributeTagOrKeyword[number]}[!]={value}

wherein the {value} can be specific values or can be specified as regex patterns.

• Use != for a not matching condition
• Multiple {value} can be specified using the pipe (|) separator
• DICOM attribute keyword names or tag numbers can be specified in keys.
• More than one type of format can be specified by configuring multiple conditions for a given use case.

Examples :

Example	Meaning
SendingApplicationEntityTitle=FORWARD	apply coercion only when remote system's AE equals FORWARD
Modality!=MR|CT	apply coercion for all Modality (0008,0060) values other than MR or CT
PatientID=00.*	apply coercion only if Patient ID (0010,0020) begins with 00 prefix
AccessionNumber!=.+	apply coercion only if Accession Number (0008,0050) in object dataset has no value
StudyDescription!=Test	apply coercion for studies with Study Description (0008,1030) not valued as TEST
ProcedureCodeSequence.CodeValue=MRProcedure	apply coercion only if code (i.e. Code Value (0008,0100)) in Procedure Code Sequence (0008,1032) matches the specified value.
00180015=JAW|THROAT	apply coercion only if Body Part Examined (0018,0015) equals JAW or THROAT.
00321034.00080100=RequestingServiceCode	apply coercion if code (i.e. Code Value (0008,0100)) in Requesting Service Code Sequence (0032,1034) matches the specified value.
ImageType[3]=LOCALIZER	apply coercion if third value in the multi-valued Image Type (0008,0008) attribute equals Localizer.