Getting Started
If you don't have the .NET framework installed, please visit the .NET download page. You will need at least version 4.5 to run this software.
You should also install the Visual Studio 2015 64-bit & 32-bit versions of the Visual C++ Redistributable Package. If you get errors, install the 2013 and 2012 versions as well.
Some of these things may already be installed on your system. Check your installed program list to fill in the gaps.
Install the 64-bit Windows GDCM Runtime, version 2.6.5 (GDCM-2.6.5-Windows-x86_64.exe). Here is a direct link to the installation file. When prompted during installation, be sure to add GDCM to the PATH. This will make it visible to the CHOP-fMRU_Assistant software.
To quickly get started with the application, simply download this zip file, which contains the current stable release version. Extract the folder to your file system and run the CHOP-fMRU_Assistant application.
The program maintains a directory containing the various studies that are imported. This must be configured the first time the program is used by a user on a particular workstation. First, create a directory in your file system that will be dedicated to this purpose and change this setting by choosing Settings from the menu.
Select Change Directory.
Select the directory that will contain the database and click OK.
Save the change.
The program will organize the studies within this directory by patient and by accession number. In the example database below, there are two patients, each of which contains a study.
The directory for each study contains an input_files directory, which contains the imported images. The input_files directory also contains an excluded directory. This is used when preparing the study for import into CHOP-fMRU and will contain portions of the study that do not need to be imported. The output_files directory will be used after functional analysis to prepare DICOM files for uploading to PACS.