DICOM 12-21 
(4)  Click [OK] to start sending. The system will send all the images stored in the 
exam record to the storage server, meanwhile, it will send storage commitment to 
the storage commitment server. 
  To send storage commitment after an exam ends 
1.  Open [Setup] →[System Preset]→[General], then check 
in the Patient Management area. 
2.  Set the default storage server and storage commitment server (refer to “12.1 DICOM 
Preset”). 
3.  After finish the above settings, every time you press <End Exam>, the system will 
send images to the default DICOM storage server for storage and storage 
commitment to default DICOM storage commitment server. 
If images are successfully send to the storage server, the storage commitment server will 
return information about the successful image storage. In the iStation screen, you will see 
a tick “√” marked on in the list below  . 
Storage commitment is confined to the whole exam, while each image sending will not be 
indicated. 
NOTE:
 
Multi-frame storage is not allowed if “Allow Multiframe” is not 
selected([Setup]→[Network Preset]→[DICOM Service Setting]→Storage). For 
example, if there is multi-frame file in the exam to be sent, then only single-frame 
image storage will be performed, and after the storage is completed, there is no 
“√” marked in the list below    in the iStation screen. 
12.3.6  Query/ Retrieve 
The query/ retrieve function is employed to query and retrieve the patient exam records in 
a designated server. 
After setting the DICOM query/ retrieve server, you can perform the query/ retrieve 
function in iStation screen. 
1.  Open iStation screen: press <iStation> or press <Patient> and click [iStation]. 
2.  Click [Query/ Retrieve] to enter the following screen.