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…
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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I had a similar issue with an MRI CD in DICOM format. I found Osiris was a great viewer, and let me rotate in 3D, color code things, and had a nice, usable UI. I hear the windoze viewer is a lot harder to use.
“Finnish x-rays could soon be analysed in India”
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Finnish+x-rays+could+soon+be+analysed+in+India/1135230642828
Well, then, that sounds like a done deal… [sigh]
We’ve got some “Dr.s”, too…
“Fake doctor scandal rocks Finland”
http://digitaljournal.com/article/314737
Try going to /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files to see if the programs have been installed there. If so, you may find an exec file that you can run there.
It’s actually much worse than that: the setup program itself doesn’t complete successfully, so there’s nothing to run!
Works fine on the Token Windows Laptop, but … then I discovered the program can’t export the images, because that function has been disabled. [grumble]
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