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Reading FilmX Picture Files?

Posted by Cliff on from the accessing-unconventional-file-types dept.

bzlman asks: "I just broke my finger and instead of conventional x-rays, the ER gave me a CD with huge picture files on it from the company called FilmX from sorna.com. Unfortunately, the software to read the pics is for Windows, and the file type for the images (each about 10 MB) is 'command line' (the files are of no conventional type). I've tried opening the files with every image program for Mac OS X and Classic, to no avail. These are high quality images I want to see, and I hope someone can help me find a Mac OS X way to view them. Thanks."

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  1. The wonders of searching VT by RalphBNumbers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hmm... their homepage says they are "a dicom solution".

    A versiontracker search for "dicom" under MacOSX returns these programs.

    Or you could just use the ubiquitous GraphicConverter which handles just about everything, including dicom images iirc.

    --
    "The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
  2. Is this a joke? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It says on the freakin' link you supplied what the format is: DICOM

    Use Google and find plenty of viewers (ImageMagick works, for instance).

    It would've taken you less typing then your slashdot story.

  3. Whoa! That's an interesting google... by morgewan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would warn against a google for 'filmx mac' if you are in a sensitive environment. Are you sure that was a finger they x-rayed???

    Honey, I was just trying to help some guy out on slashdot REALLY!

  4. use iRad or Osirix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    the pictures may be in DICOM format, which is the standard for radiographic images. Either of these programs will read that format and allow you to manipulate the image series.

    1. Re:use iRad or Osirix by eyv · · Score: 5, Informative

      I'll be a karma whore. Here is a page of information and links to some free viewers.

  5. Here we go again by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I really don't care if I burn Karma here.

    Why is Cliff intent on turning apple.slashdot.org into a tech support forum? I mean I could probably point to at least 10 stories he has posted in the last month or two which are basically some random person who needs help with an OS X issue that a two second search on Google or VT or the Macworld of Macfixit forums or any other number of places would have yielded the answer to.

    1. Re:Here we go again by zo219 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It's not Cliff. (Okay, maybe it is Cliff, but that's another story.) Fact is, every damn OS X forum has been clogged - clogged, people! - with questions that a pulldown of the ol' Help Menu would answer. If Google is too much to ask. I don't get it. Why OS X? It is Switchers? Some kind of Learned Helpless that eventually besets all who use Windows?
      In which case one must be patient and charitable. But forget completely about Apple "My screen is all funny writing and grey" Discussions. The dumb-down is everywhere. I have even seen (gasp, I know) semi-boneheaded idling on macosxhints.com. Now, that's serious. Though by this time, Panther hints must be running pretty sparse on the ground. . .

  6. Dear slashdot.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My friend gave me a shiny flat object. He said it's a "Seedy" and I should put it in my Mac. But my Mac only has a small 3.5-inch slot on the lower right.

    What do I do? Should I cut the seedy in half or what?

    Thanks!

  7. openrad.com to the rescue! by whiteSanjuro · · Score: 5, Informative

    what you are looking for is an open-source DICOM Viewer. OpenRad is a great source for open source radiology projects and information.