Prescription Conversion
Each radiotherapy prescription is converted into a matched RTPlan / RTDose pair, preserving dose metadata and beam geometry for clinical review or re-import.
Pinnacle³ workstations reach end of support at end of 2026. Archive Exporter converts your Pinnacle TAR databases into fully standardized DICOM files — RTStruct, RTPlan, RTDose, CT Image — before your data becomes inaccessible.
Request a conversion Learn moreArchive Exporter is a professional data migration service for radiation oncology centers using Pinnacle³ (by Philips) as their treatment planning system (TPS).
Pinnacle stores all patient radiotherapy data — CT images, structure sets, treatment plans, and dose distributions — in a proprietary .tar archive format. When a clinic migrates to a new TPS, upgrades its PACS, or needs to archive data for long-term retention, this format is incompatible with modern systems. With Pinnacle³ reaching end of support at end of 2026, this migration is now time-critical for all departments still running Pinnacle.
Archive Exporter reads these .tar archives and outputs fully compliant DICOM files: RTStruct, RTPlan, RTDose, and CT Image — the universal standard for medical imaging interoperability — while significantly reducing your storage footprint.
Each radiotherapy prescription is converted into a matched RTPlan / RTDose pair, preserving dose metadata and beam geometry for clinical review or re-import.
Exported DICOM files are organized in a clear folder tree by patient and case. No flat dumps — every record is navigable and importable without preprocessing.
Select a subset of patients for export using their unique Patient ID. Ideal for partial migrations, audits, or exporting specific cohorts without processing the full database.
Filter by treatment plan name to export only the plans relevant to your workflow — approved plans, QA plans, or specific protocol-based plans.
The conversion eliminates proprietary overhead present in Pinnacle TAR archives. Resulting DICOM files are significantly smaller, reducing long-term storage costs — with zero data loss.
Philips has announced that Pinnacle³ proprietary workstations will no longer be maintained after end of 2026. Once support ends, your TAR archives become inaccessible — no updates, no fixes, no way to read your historical patient data on any modern system.
TPS migrations and archive exports take time to plan and execute. Departments that wait until the last quarter of 2026 risk running out of time. The right moment to act is now.
Plan your migration →.tar archives include significant proprietary overhead and redundant data structures. The resulting DICOM files are leaner and better structured, leading to a notable reduction in storage footprint — particularly valuable for long-term archiving — with zero data loss..tar archive files generated by the Pinnacle³ treatment planning system (Philips). These archives contain raw patient, plan, dose, and image data in Pinnacle's proprietary format.RTStruct (structure sets), RTPlan (treatment plan parameters), RTDose (calculated dose distributions), and CT Image (planning CT series)..tar format is proprietary and readable only by Pinnacle itself. DICOM is the universal standard used by all modern TPS, PACS, and oncology information systems. Converting ensures data accessibility, long-term archival compliance, and smooth system migrations.