Subject: Medical Image Format FAQ, Part 1/3
From: dclunie@dclunie.com (David A. Clunie)
Followup-To: alt.image.medical
Reply-To: dclunie@dclunie.com (David A. Clunie)
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
Summary: This posting contains answers to the most Frequently Asked
         Question on alt.image.medical - how do I convert from image
         format X from vendor Y to something I can use ? In addition
         it contains information about various standard formats.

Archive-name: medical-image-faq/part1
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Last-modified: Fri Nov 11 14:48:13 GMT+0300 1994
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Contents:

    part1    - contains index, general information & standard formats
    part2    - contains standard formats (continued)
    part3    - contains information about proprietary CT formats
    part4    - contains information about proprietary MR formats
    part5    - contains information about proprietary other formats
    part6    - contains information about hosts & compression
    part7    - contains general information sources
    part8    - contains DICOM information sources

Tools that describe and convert many of the formats described in this document are available in the dicom3tools package from

    "http://www.dclunie.com/dicom3tools.html".

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