Straight from the X-ray machine to ThoroughVet
The clinic's X-ray machine sends through a small gateway on a clinic PC. No static IP, no firewall changes, nothing lost.
- X-ray consoleSends DICOM as usualClinic network
- Gateway on a clinic PCSaves each image, then uploads itHTTPS, outbound
- ThoroughVetGrouped into studies in your clinic account
Outbound only, so nothing on your network has to open up.
Works with any standard DICOM sender, on any connection, including Starlink and 4G.
Setup
Set up in minutes
One app, no codes to type, then three fields on the X-ray machine.
- Install ThoroughVet on a PC wired to the X-ray machine's network
- Settings › X-ray gateway › Set up this PC
- ThoroughVet Local Gateway opens: sign in, Set up X-ray gateway, link to your clinic
- Add it as a DICOM destination on the X-ray machine
- Send a test image
In ThoroughVet
Know the moment images land
Each gateway reports in, and your vets hear when a study arrives.
- Online, waiting, last uploadEvery gateway's state in Settings, for each PC in the clinic.
- Two alerts per studyOne when images start arriving, one when they are all in.
- Grouped into studiesIn your clinic account, kept as the machine sent them, with a fast-viewing copy added.
Reliability
Never loses an image
Saved before it is acknowledged, so a dropped connection only delays an image.
- X-ray consoleSends each image as usual
- Saved to diskIn the gateway's queue on the clinic PC
- StoredOnly now is the console told the image is stored
- UploadedOver HTTPS, outbound, to your clinic account
- Signed and kept up to dateRuns as a ThoroughVet-signed Windows service that starts with the PC. New versions install from ThoroughVet Local Gateway.
- Several per clinicAdmins add and revoke gateways, or connect directly with a fixed IP address.
- One Windows PCA Windows 10, Windows 11 or Windows Server 2019/2022 PC (64-bit) on the same network as the X-ray machine.