DICOM Destination

The DICOM destination acts as a C-STORE SCU (Service Class User), sending DICOM objects to a remote PACS, VNA, or any DICOM-compatible system over the DICOM network protocol.

It handles association negotiation, presentation context selection, and transfer syntax automatically, so you only need to configure the connection and AE title details.

Configuration

destination:
  type: dicom
  dicom:
    host: pacs.radiology.local
    port: 11112
    ae_title: INTU_SCU
    called_ae_title: MAIN_PACS
    timeout_ms: 60000
    max_pdu_length: 16384
    tls:
      enabled: true
      ca_file: ./certs/pacs-ca.crt

Properties

Property	Type	Required	Default	Description
`host`	`string`	Yes	—	Hostname or IP address of the remote DICOM system.
`port`	`int`	Yes	—	TCP port of the remote DICOM listener. Common value: `11112`.
`ae_title`	`string`	No	`INTU_SCU`	Application Entity title for the local (calling) side.
`called_ae_title`	`string`	No	—	Application Entity title of the remote (called) system.
`timeout_ms`	`int`	No	`60000`	Association and operation timeout in milliseconds.
`max_pdu_length`	`int`	No	`16384`	Maximum PDU (Protocol Data Unit) length in bytes.
`tls`	`object`	No	—	TLS settings for encrypted DICOM connections (DICOM TLS).

Complete Example

Route DICOM images from a modality worklist channel to the main PACS:

id: modality-store
enabled: true
group: radiology

source:
  type: dicom
  port: 4104
  ae_title: INTU_SCP

transformer: tag-cleanup.ts

destinations:
  - type: dicom
    dicom:
      host: pacs.radiology.local
      port: 11112
      ae_title: INTU_SCU
      called_ae_title: MAIN_PACS
      timeout_ms: 120000
      max_pdu_length: 65536
      tls:
        enabled: true
        ca_file: ./certs/pacs-ca.crt