Skip to content

Upload studies

Getting DICOM images into MyPACS. You need the Admin or Doctor role — see Roles and permissions.

Drag and drop (easiest)

  1. Go to https://<your-subdomain>.mypacs.co/orthanc and sign in.
  2. Open Upload.
  3. Drag your DICOM files or a whole folder onto the page, and start the upload.

Accepted input:

  • individual .dcm files
  • a folder of DICOM files, including subfolders
  • a ZIP archive of DICOM files
  • the DICOM folder from a patient CD or DVD

Files are matched into patients, studies and series automatically from the DICOM tags — you don't have to sort them first.

Large batches

Browsers cope poorly with tens of thousands of files at once. Upload study by study, or in batches of a few hundred, and keep the tab open until it finishes. Do not close the tab mid-upload.

Once the upload completes, the studies appear in the study list at https://<your-subdomain>.mypacs.co for everyone in your environment.

From software (DICOMweb)

For automated import from a script or another system, MyPACS exposes the standard DICOMweb STOW-RS endpoint:

https://<your-subdomain>.mypacs.co/orthanc/dicom-web/studies

Query and retrieval use the matching QIDO-RS and WADO-RS routes under /orthanc/dicom-web/. Requests must carry the access token of a user allowed to upload; treat any token as a credential and never put one in a URL you share.

If you are integrating a RIS, a modality gateway or a research pipeline, contact info@mypacs.co and we'll help you set up credentials.

Sending directly from a modality (C-STORE)

Classic DICOM transfer from a scanner over the DICOM protocol is not enabled by default — your environment publishes only secure web traffic, so a modality on your hospital network cannot push to it out of the box.

If you need modalities to send studies straight into MyPACS, write to info@mypacs.co. This normally involves a gateway on your own network, and it needs to be planned with your IT team.

After uploading

  • Studies are stored in your private object storage, encrypted in transit.
  • The index (patients, studies, series) lives in your own database.
  • Nothing is visible to other MyPACS customers.
  • Everyone in your environment can see the study — see the note in Roles and permissions.