Medical Image Format FAQ

This document contains answers to the most Frequently Asked Question on alt.image.medical - how do I convert from image format X from vendor Y to something I can use ? In addition it contains information about various standard formats, including DICOM.

Contents

• preface (what you are reading now)
• latest changes
• table of contents
• part1 - general information & standard formats
• part2 - standard formats (continued)
• part3 - proprietary CT formats
• part4 - proprietary MR formats
• part5 - proprietary other formats
• part6 - hosts & compression
• part7 - general information sources
• part8 - DICOM information sources
• index by keyword

Conversion Tools

Tools that describe and convert many of the formats described in this document are available in the dicom3tools package from http://www.dclunie.com/dicom3tools.html.

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The next part is latest changes.

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