Look at the X-ray, CT or MRI images from your hospital CD or USB stick on a Mac, PC or tablet, without installing anything. Choose the whole folder: images stay on your device and are never uploaded. For viewing images, not for diagnosis.
Drop DICOM files or a whole CD/USB folder here
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Your file stays on this device: it is read here, in your browser, and never uploaded.
Files ending in .dcm, files without an extension, or the whole folder from a patient CD (up to 5000 files).
For viewing images, not for diagnosis. This viewer is not a medical device: rely on your radiologist’s report and your doctor.
Choose the whole CD or USB folder, or a few .dcm files. Files that are not images (the viewer program, the index) are skipped.
Images are grouped into series as the scanner made them (for example “T2 axial”) and sorted in order.
Scroll through the slices, drag to adjust contrast and brightness, invert, and save the image you see as a PNG.
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the standard format of medical images: X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, mammography and more. Each file holds one image, or a stack of them, plus details such as the patient’s name, the date and the scanner settings.
A hospital CD or USB stick usually holds a DICOMDIR (an index), folders of image files with names like IM0001 or 00000001 and no extension, and often a viewer program for Windows. That bundled viewer may not run on a Mac, on a newer Windows, or on a laptop without a CD drive, which is why people end up searching for another way to look at their scans.
Medical images are health data. Here they are read and shown by your own browser; nothing is uploaded: the page’s security rules stop it from sending data to other sites, and neither the files nor their names are sent to our own domain. If you share a PNG, remember that you choose what it shows.
In many countries you have the right to a copy of your images and of the radiologist’s report. If your CD is missing, damaged or unreadable, ask the radiology department or the clinic that did the scan for a new copy, or for a download link.
Copy the CD (or open the USB stick) and choose the whole folder here. The Windows viewer on the CD will not run on a Mac, but the image files themselves open in this browser viewer.
No. They are read in your browser and never leave your device. The page’s security rules stop it from sending data to other sites, and neither the file nor its name is sent to our own domain.
Either the files are not images (indexes, reports, the viewer program), or they use a compression this viewer cannot decode (JPEG Lossless, JPEG-LS, JPEG 2000). The viewer tells you which. A free desktop viewer such as Weasis can show those.
You can look at your images: the viewer is for viewing images, not for diagnosis. Reading medical images takes training, and this viewer is not a medical device. The radiologist’s report and your doctor are the source for what the images show.
Medical images hold far more shades of grey than a screen can show. The window is the range of values shown from black to white (contrast), the level is its middle (brightness). CT presets pick values that suit brain, soft tissue, lung or bone.
Yes, as PNG, exactly as you see them on the screen. To give your images to another hospital, give them the original CD or files instead: a PNG loses the medical data.