On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:45 +0200, David Baron wrote: > The commercial packages is called "Diadisk". The array is placed under or > patient and it records the image. It is later connected to the computer to > retrieve the X-ray. Like all good commercial packages, the storage formats > are nicely proprietary. The viewer software is distributed on the CD with the > images files so a doctor with a Windows machine can look at them. > > There are naturally a lot of pixels, allbeit monochrome, for a full size > equivalent chest X-ray, for example. The program hung up my Win98, stalled > nicely under WINE, ran quite well in a Qemu Win98 session but sloowwww. My > PIII 575mhz was just not up to the job with emulation layers. If I had the > patience, just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing .... > > So ... are there any GPL programs than can read these things?
It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds several applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see if they actually are free software or simply gratis. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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