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Converting DICOM X-ray Images to Something Useful
Posted by Ed in Photography & Images, Software on 13-May-2012
For reasons that aren’t relevant here, we have a CD bearing X-rays of Mary’s shoulder. Of course, they’re in DICOM image format and come with a relentlessly Window-centric viewer that won’t run in Wine and can’t export the files in a more useful format.
Imagemagick to the rescue:
convert /media/floppy/DICOM/997313/00100000 "Mary Shoulder 2.jpg"
They tell us she has great bones and everything worked out fine…


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