After searching for collections and series of interest using the TCIA Radiology Portal, you can download them in three ways.
The Download menu in the Radiology Portal offers three ways of downloading data you have selected through a search.
Download Cart
Download Query
Get NBIA Data Retriever
have the following options for downloading the data.
- Add data to the cart and then download the full cart.
- Add data to the cart and then download a partial cart.
- Download all of the data in the current query immediately.
When you download the query, the results are the same as downloading your full cart.
TCIA provides your download in the form of When you download images from the Radiology Portal, TCIA provides a list of these images in a manifest file (manifest-xxx.tcia). You must install the NBIA Data Retriever to open this manifest file and download the images. You can access the latest version of the NBIA Data Retriever by selecting Download > Get NBIA Data Retriever.
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You can share the manifest file with collaborators so that they can download the same images that you have selected by sharing your cart or sharing your query. Collaborators must also install have the NBIA Data Retriever to open the manifest file you share. If you want to share a manifest file that includes links to private image collections, you must first manually install the latest NBIA Data Retriever. The NBIA Data Retriever controls access to private collections. Your collaborators must have the same access to the private collections in the manifest as you do. Otherwise, your collaborators will not be able to download images from those collections. |
Download Cart
The Download menu in the Radiology Portal offers three ways of downloading data you have selected through a search.
Download Query
Get NBIA Data Retriever
When you download images from the Radiology Portal, TCIA provides a list of these images in a manifest file (manifest-xxx.tcia). You must install the NBIA Data Retriever to open this manifest file and download the images.
To download images from the cart using the NBIA Data Retriever
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