Hello,
I'm the leader of the Orthanc project that was mentioned by Karsten.
Orthanc comes with the "Stone Web viewer" plugin that provides a free
and open-source radiology viewer with features similar to those of aeskulap:
https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=stone-web-viewer
You could suggest the surgeon's to install this viewer on their own
Microsoft Windows machines using the official Orthanc installers:
https://www.orthanc-server.com/download-windows.php
You could also run Orthanc on a GNU/Linux virtual machine in the cloud,
then provide an access to the surgeon's office. You can find Debian
packages for the Stone Web viewer in a standalone Debian repository
(this is not part of the official Debian distribution yet, because of
inherent difficulties to package WebAssembly applications):
https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/cookbook.html#obtaining-binaries
Finally, do not hesitate to get in touch with the Orthanc community at
the following address:
https://groups.google.com/g/orthanc-users
Hope this helps,
Sébastien-
On 12/11/22 01:23, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
Am Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 09:57:36PM +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
Am Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 07:39:53AM -0800 schrieb L Peter Deutsch:
Dear M. Pipelka and M. Tille,
I found your names and e-mail addresses on the aeskulap man page.
A hospital has provided us with a CD of CT scans in DICOM format that are
essential for my husband's surgery. The surgeon's staff has been unable to
view them; convert (ImageMagick), dcm2pnm, and dcmj2pnm all produce images
that are gray with only tiny shade variations. aeskulap produces beautiful
clear images, but the surgeon's office does not run Linux and cannot use
aeskulap.
I have been unable to find any documentation for aeskulap other than a very
short man page. I could have sworn I saw a man page that gave instructions
for a command line switch that caused aeskulap to write an image file in
some more usable format (PNG, PDF, ...), but I cannot find this page
anywhere now. Does such documentation exist, and if so, where?
As fas as I remember there were not really any switches.
Discussion was on adding DICOMDIR support to the command line
somehow.
Have you tried importing the images into the Orthanc DICOM
server and re-retrieving images from that as PNG ?
www.orthanc-server.com
There's a Debian package available.
Retrieval can be done with some simple Python.
If you get the images into that, and if you can display them
OK with the integrated browser based viewer, I can try to
help out with some Python code. For starters on that, go
here:
https://github.com/ncqgm/gnumed/blob/master/gnumed/gnumed/client/business/gmDICOM.py
Bast,
Karsten
L Peter Deutsch
(original author of Ghostscript)
Thanks.
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