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NumaLink-3.0™ Users Guide and Service Manual

3. Product Overview

In general, NumaLink-3.0 discovers nuclear medicine image files in one OEM format that are placed in a configured input directory, and translates them to image files in another OEM format in a configured output directory. While performing this translation, it makes use of various directories in a work directory tree. This flow is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 – NumaLink-3.0 OEM Data Flow

	NumaLink	Output
Input Directory	(nmtrans.exe)
		Directory
	Work Directory
	Tree
		NL_UserMan_001

Input files are removed from the input directory as they are processed. Input files are not deleted immediately; instead, they are moved to one of the following directories in the work directory tree:

Directory	Use
<work-directory>\cache	All files that have been translated successfully
<work-directory>\trash	All files that could not be translated successfully
	Any files that are considered part of an incomplete translation set (for
	example, if GSPECT studies are in separate time bin files and one of
<work-directory>\staging	the bins is missing; files in the staging directory are combined with files
	that subsequently appear in the input directory, in the hope that at
	incomplete set will eventually become complete and translatable)

Other directories in the work directory tree are:

Directory	Use
<work-directory>\intm_1	Temporary storage for intermediate format dumps before customization
<work-directory>\intm_2	Temporary storage for intermediate format dumps after customization
<work-directory>\nifimg	Temporary storage for pixel data

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