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Grimmer edited this page Jun 29, 2020 · 43 revisions

Welcome to the DICOM web viewer wiki!

A Chrome extension to view the images in medical DICOM files. This is not for clinical use and just a reference. Two usages:

  1. View online DICOM files
  2. View local offline DICOM files on your PC/MAC. Just drag your DICOM files (.dcm/.dicom/.DCM/.DICOM) onto Chrome browser or use file browser to open it.

After installation (to enable offline viewing)

  1. Open the Extension Management page by navigating to "chrome://extensions" (input this in the address bar)
  2. Locate DICOM Image Viewer and click on the DETAILS button
  3. Turn Allow access to file URLs switch on

Change Log / Features

V1.3:

  • [Add] Use mouse/touch press+move to change Window Center (level) and Window Width
  • [Add] Add some difference common Window Center (level) modes (e.g. Brain/Lungs)
  • [Add] Support MONOCHROME1 inverted color DICOM
  • [Add] View multiple local files (sort by name)
  • [Add] CLI tool to open DICOM files with this extension in your terminal !!
  • [Add] Use shortcut (ctrl+u/cmd+u) to open extension viewer page
  • [Add] Click extension icon to open extension viewer page
  • [Remove] PALETTE COLOR DICOM support

v1.2:

  1. Remove the handle on outside-of-scan pixels.
  2. Add windowCenter/windowHeight mode
  3. Set maximal shown resolution and resize too large DICOM files.
  4. Support RGB and PALETTE COLOR DICOM files, useful for ultrasound DICOM
  5. Show some meta info. on UI

v1.1.3: Add the function to view online DICOM files. Also add the support for .DCM, .DICOM and .dicom file extension.

v1.1.2: Detect outside-of-scan pixels and reset to minimal value (~air) when the file is using default unsigned pixel representation, intercept (-1024) and padding (-2000).

v1.1.1: Rename the extension to DICOM image viewer

v1.1:

  1. support multi-frame file
  2. add drop file zone in the opened DICOM extension page
  3. add web site version: https://grimmer.io/dicom-web-viewer/

v1.0:

  1. open DICOM p10 image file

Not support yet:

  1. DICOM video format.
  2. some non-linear Modality LUT case
  3. YBR Photometric DICOM

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