Escape Medical Viewer is a good DICOM product, built upon QuickTime technology and is available on both the Mac and PC platforms. As a commercial and cross-platform product, it is an easier sell to IT Departments than an open source application. EMV is a good choice for Mac users working in a mixed platform Radiology Dept. IT in most hospitals wants ONE app- not a hodgepodge. EMV allows PC Radiologists and Mac Radiologists to have the same application while using the computer of their choice. The other great advantage is the commercial support available that is not replicated on most open-source software. OsiriX is a great app that is getting better all the time, but many IT Admins or Imaging Directors will balk at the lack of support. If you can find an Apple Value Added Reseller that will support OsiriX, go for it. Otherwise, you will find a great deal of resistance from Administration, IT and the Radiologists. EMV is also more G4 friendly than OsiriX, and would be a good choice for laptop use on a PowerBook for ON-Call image review. For Workstation (read G5 with a good video card and a lot of memory) use, OsiriX. For mobile image review on a G4, use EMV.
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Did you pass a CT (scanner) exam or a MRI (magnetic resonance) exam recently?
OsiriX 6.5.2 - 3D medical image processing software with DICOM/PACS support. Download the latest versions of the best Mac apps at safe and trusted MacUpdate. Question: Q: eFilm Lite for Mac OS X or a freeware third party viewer to view DICOM medical images? Does anyone know if there is an eFilm Lite software for Mac OS X (10.5.8 and 10.8.4)?
These exams are produced by a radiology equipment. “Medical imaging” exams create images of various parts of the body to screen for or diagnose medical conditions. This equipment produces images, most of the time slices of your body. CT and MRI imaging are sometimes compared to looking into a loaf of bread by cutting the loaf into thin slices. When the image slices are reassembled by computer software, the result is a very detailed multidimensional view of the body’s interior.
All these equipments produce images in DICOM format. A DICOM file is similar to a JPEG file, but with specifications for medical imaging. That means that a file of a chest x-ray image, for example, actually contains the patient name and patient ID within the file, so that the image can never be separated from this information by mistake. This is similar to the way that image formats such as JPEG can also have embedded tags to identify and otherwise describe the image.
You can ask your doctor or the imaging center to provide you a CD/DVD or a USB stick with the images, in DICOM format. You need a compatible software to read these DICOM files.