[wplug] Linux programs to troubleshoot a DiCom problem

Vance Kochenderfer vkochend at nyx.net
Tue Aug 12 12:09:17 EDT 2008


Tom Fetherston <tfetherston at ncdcorp.com> wrote:
> I put in a piece of equipment that captures 
> x-rays from an image intensifier via a CCD camera, and then puts them 
> into DiCom format (basically a medical image protocol) and send them to 
> a DiCom Archiver/Workstation that lets the Doc's review them.
> 
> Worked fine for six months, then it started pop-ing up an error message 
> and causing the workstation to file each image in a study as a separate 
> study instead of  just adding the image.

Supposedly Imagemagick <http://www.imagemagick.org/> can read (but
not write) the DICOM image format.

For sniffing packets going across the network, there's always
Wireshark <http://www.wireshark.org/>.

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