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Medicine image file format
File type: Bitmap image file
Files with dicom file extension can be found as images in special Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine format.
File type category:
Bitmap image file
Date updated: August 1, 2019
The dicom file extension is used for a medicine omage file saved in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image format.
Created by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) as a standard for distributing and viewing medical images, such as MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasound images.
Usually these files are viewed using special programs for devices used in medicine. Some graphics viewer may still support it and open it just fine.
It should be possible to export DICOM pictures as normal images, but that will remove any special metadata.
Software applications that can open dicom files:
Multiplatform
Software applications that can edit dicom files:
Multiplatform
Software capable of saving dicom files:
Multiplatform
Programs for viewing dicom files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Multiplatform
Software apps that import dicom files:
Multiplatform
Software apps that export dicom files:
Microsoft Windows
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Software apps that print dicom files:
Microsoft Windows
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