winders X-rays

[Tony Alfrey]

Robert Hemus 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.

A dicom file is a file format that is used for MRIs and x-rays.  There 
are lots of free file readers for these types of files for XP and for 
the Mac.  You don't need the stuff that came on that disk other than the 
dicom files themselves, probably in the DicomDir.  I found a file reader 
for the Mac called QuickDicom that works fine but that doesn't help you.


Here is one that looks like it may work for XP and your linux box

http://barre.nom.fr/medical/dicom2/

Here is more info

http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/ezdicom.html

Just do a Google search on dicom reader and you will find lots of stuff.




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Tony Alfrey
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