DR BROWSE, A DIGITAL IMAGE FILE FORMAT BROWSER

The emerging widespread adoption of the Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard will increase the demand for radiologic image transfer between radiologic image acquisition, archive, display and printing devices. Unfortunately, there are and will continue to be many devices that do not and will not support this standard, especial ly older radiologic equipment and devices from non-radiologic vendors. Determining the image file format characteristics of images from such equipment is often difficult, and done on an ad hoc basis. We have de veloped a software tool that assists users in determining the image fi le format parameters of unknown radiologic images.