Take control of your images!<br />Where to get DICOM readersComments on: -- http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html because health professionals can't do it alone Tue, 22 May 2012 03:29:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Rosenman (@davidrosenman) http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html/comment-page-1#comment-60087 David Rosenman (@davidrosenman) Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:22:14 +0000 http://72.9.147.40/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html#comment-60087 OsiriX http://www.osirix-viewer.com/ :) OsiriX

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/

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]]> By: Dee http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html/comment-page-1#comment-56240 Dee Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:20:03 +0000 http://72.9.147.40/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html#comment-56240 My podiatrist, who's website seems to offer the latest in xray technology, has no idea what DICOM is. (Supposedly.) I have had the most difficult time getting my xrays from him in this format. He seems confused and claims he's never hear of it. I'll keep it short here but it's on my Surgical blog: http://brachymetatarsia.blogspot.com/2010/07/education-on-dicom.html Several of the "Dr" entries are very very educational. Quite a few links within the blog too. http://brachymetatarsia.blogspot.com/ Thank you so much for this article. It's one of the links I'll be sending him to educate him. My podiatrist, who’s website seems to offer the latest in xray technology, has no idea what DICOM is. (Supposedly.) I have had the most difficult time getting my xrays from him in this format.

He seems confused and claims he’s never hear of it. I’ll keep it short here but it’s on my Surgical blog:
http://brachymetatarsia.blogspot.com/2010/07/education-on-dicom.html

Several of the “Dr” entries are very very educational. Quite a few links within the blog too. http://brachymetatarsia.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much for this article. It’s one of the links I’ll be sending him to educate him.

]]> By: e-Patient Dave http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html/comment-page-1#comment-401 e-Patient Dave Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:49:02 +0000 http://72.9.147.40/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html#comment-401 I'd welcome anyone else's comments on DICOM users that work well. Heck, we NEED them! I’d welcome anyone else’s comments on DICOM users that work well. Heck, we NEED them!

]]> By: Chris http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html/comment-page-1#comment-400 Chris Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:51:47 +0000 http://72.9.147.40/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html#comment-400 I wish I could say I rememebered the name, but I don't. I Googled for "OSX DICOM viewer" and after the first two didn't do much for me, I found a few pages listing a ton of them. I downloaded five or six before I got to one that actually worked. Sadly, I wouldn't really consider any of them terribly user-friendly. One had a menu option that said "Load images from CD," and that sounded great to me. Until it failed to load anything. I ended up having to actually open each image manually (thankfully the program I did end up using had a keyboard shortcut for "Open next image in series" which made it easy). Then I exported to JPG the images I wanted to keep. Painful process. I do recall that the viewer I ended up using was a purely Java-based viewer, so it is cross-platform, and I believe the icon was of a gold-colored microscope. I wish I could say I rememebered the name, but I don’t. I Googled for “OSX DICOM viewer” and after the first two didn’t do much for me, I found a few pages listing a ton of them. I downloaded five or six before I got to one that actually worked.

Sadly, I wouldn’t really consider any of them terribly user-friendly. One had a menu option that said “Load images from CD,” and that sounded great to me. Until it failed to load anything. I ended up having to actually open each image manually (thankfully the program I did end up using had a keyboard shortcut for “Open next image in series” which made it easy). Then I exported to JPG the images I wanted to keep. Painful process.

I do recall that the viewer I ended up using was a purely Java-based viewer, so it is cross-platform, and I believe the icon was of a gold-colored microscope.

]]> By: e-Patient Dave http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html/comment-page-1#comment-399 e-Patient Dave Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:33:29 +0000 http://72.9.147.40/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html#comment-399 Chris is a cousin of mine who, in January, experienced a C6-C7 subluxation. (For those who don't speak Spinal Cord Injuryese, that's bad news: he fell, and two vertebrae in his neck changed positions. Needless to say, the spinal cord doesn't like this, and he became unable to move much.) He became a blogger, while going through the wait-and-see (and work your butt off) process: will recovery start soon, or am I screwed for life? It was big news when, in May, he posted <a href="http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/05/07/my-left-toe/" rel="nofollow">My Left Big Toe</a>, whose entire content is:<blockquote>I can move it.</blockquote> A few weeks ago he <a href="http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/07/25/want-to-see-the-screws-in-my-neck" rel="nofollow">posted</a> many scan images. Chris, what viewer did you end up with? Did you consider it reasonably user-friendly? Do you think non-geek users would find it reasonably friendly? Chris is a cousin of mine who, in January, experienced a C6-C7 subluxation. (For those who don’t speak Spinal Cord Injuryese, that’s bad news: he fell, and two vertebrae in his neck changed positions. Needless to say, the spinal cord doesn’t like this, and he became unable to move much.) He became a blogger, while going through the wait-and-see (and work your butt off) process: will recovery start soon, or am I screwed for life?

It was big news when, in May, he posted My Left Big Toe, whose entire content is:

I can move it.

A few weeks ago he posted many scan images.

Chris, what viewer did you end up with? Did you consider it reasonably user-friendly? Do you think non-geek users would find it reasonably friendly?

]]> By: Chris http://e-patients.net/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html/comment-page-1#comment-398 Chris Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:42:33 +0000 http://72.9.147.40/archives/2008/07/take-control-of-your-imageswhere-to-get-dicom-readers.html#comment-398 Good post - and one that is sorely needed. My CT images came as DICOM images, and the software Mount Sinai used to create the CD builds it with a nifty autorun that allows anyone to view the images. On a Windows computer. And I can tell you exactly what they say when you want a non-Windows version. When I looked up the software vendor's site, their knowledgebase simply said, "find a computer with Windows." Such horrible customer service, and I contacted them to let them know of such. It took me a matter of minutes to find a DICOM viewer for OSX that worked with their imageset, and I was able to view and extract the images easily. The viewer I ended up using was a Java viewer, so it actually works anywhere. Oh, and to answer your question about how I got the CD with the images. One doctor had the images made, and sent a copy to another doctor of mine as a courtesy. After he viewed the disc, he said, "here, you'll probably like this." Good post – and one that is sorely needed. My CT images came as DICOM images, and the software Mount Sinai used to create the CD builds it with a nifty autorun that allows anyone to view the images. On a Windows computer. And I can tell you exactly what they say when you want a non-Windows version.

When I looked up the software vendor’s site, their knowledgebase simply said, “find a computer with Windows.” Such horrible customer service, and I contacted them to let them know of such.

It took me a matter of minutes to find a DICOM viewer for OSX that worked with their imageset, and I was able to view and extract the images easily. The viewer I ended up using was a Java viewer, so it actually works anywhere.

Oh, and to answer your question about how I got the CD with the images. One doctor had the images made, and sent a copy to another doctor of mine as a courtesy. After he viewed the disc, he said, “here, you’ll probably like this.”

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