---
title: "Query the child series of an answer"
method: POST
path: "/queries/{id}/answers/{index}/query-series"
tags: ["Networking"]
---

# Query the child series of an answer

`POST /queries/{id}/answers/{index}/query-series`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/demo`
- URL: `https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/demo/queries/{id}/answers/{index}/query-series`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/uclouvain/apis/orthanc-api/docs/queries/:id/answers/:index/query-series/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Issue a second DICOM C-FIND operation, in order to query the child series associated with one answer to some query/retrieve operation whose identifiers are provided in the URL

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required
- `index` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `Query` object: Associative array containing the filter on the values of the DICOM tags
  - `Timeout` number: DICOM SCU Timeout for this C-FIND command, in seconds (new in Orthanc 1.9.1)

## Response `200`

- object
  - `ID` object: Identifier of the query, to be used with `/queries/{id}`
  - `Path` object: Root path to the query in the REST API

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/uclouvain/apis/orthanc-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/uclouvain/apis/orthanc-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/uclouvain/apis/orthanc-api/revisions/dbfb49bf0bc7?raw)