winders X-rays

[Andrew Gould]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Robert Hemus<ol.bob at charter.net> wrote:
> Lady & Gentlemen,
>
> My wife is having a hip re-re-re-placement.  I asked the surgeon for a
> copy of the x-ray of her hip/femur and his secretary sent me a disk.  It
> has 5 directories, a file DicomDir, and a file autorun.inf and
> INDEX.HTM.
>
> I can't open it in Win XP or with my limited knowledge of Linux, Ubuntu
> 9.04.  I'm hoping some one, here, can, will? point me in the correct
> direction.
>
> Many thanks,
> Bob
>

Hi Bob,

I'm sorry to hear about your wife's re-re-replacement.

When I received digital copies of the x-ray and mri images of my
symmetrically broken wrists (broken in the first 45 seconds of my
first indoor soccer game), the CD's came with a windows-only display
application.  One of the nice things about the application was that it
would play a recording of the physician's notes for each image.  You
might recheck the CD's for a viewing application.

As a historical note, there was a storage and viewing application
written for the Mac back when MD's would store these images on the
early iPods, which had more storage space than their work desktop
computers.  This was before HIPAA, obviously.

Best of luck,

Andrew