Convert from DICOM. Pequliarities and recommendations.
Most modern ultrasound devices, X-ray photography systems and computer tomographs use DICOM image format (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine image) for storing images.
DICOM is a universal data format which allows storing series of images as well as much additional information about these images.
DICOM format has an inbuilt interface for receiving and sending these files over a global computer network. This allows to get advice of practitioners located far from place of examination.
DICOM standard is supported by most devices which allows data exchange regardless of equipment or examination type. DICOM version 3.0 is a unified format for storage and transmission of medical images.
Usually, DICOM file format is supported by special software shipped together with corresponding medical equipment.
Image Converter Plus supports most variations of this format starting with first DICOM images produced in 80s of XX century and including latest images of DICOM 3.0 format. Use Image Converter Plus, to store your image collections in DICOM format or convert them to any output format available in Image Converter Plus.
When you select an output format for DICOM files, you should first find out whether your DICOM files are onepage or multipage. If you want to convert multipage DICOM files, you may need to preserve image animation.
When saving onepage DICOM images, we recommend that you use:
- JPG format for true color DICOM images.
- PNG or TIFF with LZW compression for images with indexed palette or black-and-white images.
When saving multipage DICOM images:
- Use animated GIF format if you want to preserve the animation
- Use multipage TIFF with JPEG compression for true color images and multipage TIFF with LZW compression for other images if you don`t want to preserve the animation.
Use Image Converter Plus for batch conversion – that’s fast and easy. Open your DICOM files in Image Converter Plus. Select output format and press “Start”. Image Converter Plus will take care of adjusting color, brightness and contrast of output images.
