eFilm Lite for Mac OS X or a freeware third party viewer to view DICOM medical images?

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eFilm Lite for Mac OS X or a freeware third party viewer to view DICOM medical images?

Hello.

Does anyone know if there is an eFilm Lite software for Mac OS X (10.5.8 and 10.8.4)? One of the medical doctors gave my client a burned CD with scanned X-rays, but we were unable to read the encrypted(?) 522 KB DCIM X-Ray image(?) files [Terminal showed "file IM000000" showed "IM000000: DICOM medical imaging data" and none of Windows, Mac, and Linux can view them] and run Windows software (want to avoid installing Windows dual boot and running a virtual machine to make things more complex for him).

I was unable to find any Mac downloads on http://www.merge.com/ web site (e-mailed support@merge.com and currently waiting for a reply/response [probably not until next regular short USA work week], but probably won't get a good answer). For now, I will have to extract these them in Windows XP Pro. SP3. Ugh! 😟

Thank you in advance. 🙂

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.4 Ghz; A1260 model; 15" size.

Posted on Jun 29, 2013 1:44 PM

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Kappy

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Jun 29, 2013 1:49 PM in response to antdude

Visit Macupdate.com and search for "dicom." There are several possibilities. Be sure to note the date for the listed software as some are pretty old.

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Jun 30, 2013 12:41 AM in response to antdude

Have you tried OsiriX

This is the latest version

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/ContributionOsiriX.html

For your MacBook Pro Intel running 10.5.8 an older version is also available

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions.html

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antdude Author

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Jun 30, 2013 12:57 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

Alberto Ravasio wrote:

Have you tried OsiriX

This is the latest version

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/ContributionOsiriX.html

For your MacBook Pro Intel running 10.5.8 an older version is also available

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions.html

Perfect!!! 🙂

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antdude Author

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Jun 30, 2013 11:45 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

Alberto Ravasio wrote:

Have you tried OsiriX

This is the latest version

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/ContributionOsiriX.html

For your MacBook Pro Intel running 10.5.8 an older version is also available

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions.html

FYI. 10.8.4 was perfect, but not for 10.5.8.

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions.html says
http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions/OsiriX4.0-Int.pkg.zip is 10.5 compatible, but
running its unzipped pkg file tells me it needs 10.6 or higher. 😟

I also tried http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions/OsiriX4.1.2.pkg-Int.zip to see if
the web site got the files swapped. Nope! 😟

I have contacted the support through its e-mail address and Yahoo! forum about this.

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Answer 5

Jul 1, 2013 7:50 AM in response to antdude

FYI. 10.8.4 was perfect, but not for 10.5.8.

I'm sorry to hear about that. I rarely and only use Leopard on my old PowerBook G4 so I couldn't try OsiriX on that.

But I successfully installed, about two months ago, the latest OsiriX version on the iMac and MacBook Pro running 10.8.4.

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lawndale

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Jan 7, 2014 6:48 AM in response to antdude

6 months later the http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions.html page still says

http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions/OsiriX4.0-Int.pkg.zip is 10.5 compatible, but unfortunately
can't install its unzipped pkg file as it also tells me it needs 10.6 or higher. 😟

Anyone have suggestions for viewing these files and using this viewer using 10.5.8?

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Owen_B

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Feb 10, 2014 12:23 AM in response to antdude

Great link.

Worked straight up, easy to import files and mainpulate. I had a collection of 3 discs that took a lot of fiddling with just to work on Windows 7, when I went back to the computer I couldn't get Windows to work again and looked here. Solved in about 5 minutes.

Just a tip, after downloading Osirix, use the import icon at the top to select the folder or disc where your images are. The application works out what it needs to import.

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Answer 8

Mar 12, 2015 11:49 AM in response to antdude

I had similar problem, got a cd from Dr. but couldn't view . I clicked on link and I downloaded and was able to view x-rays. I have a mac mini with

OS X 10.9.5 .... Thanks

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Answer 9

Apr 21, 2015 3:36 AM in response to antdude

I have a file with all sorts of stuff in from an MRI scan. I've got Osiri but don't know what files i need to import to view the MRI

Here is the list

20MRI/20065_00000813.zip

autorun.inf

Ionic.Zip.Reduced.dll

Launcher.exe

Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest

msvcm90.dll

msvcp90.dll

msvcr90.dll

spans.cfg

Unzip%20Utility.exe

Help!

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BDAqua

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Apr 21, 2015 8:40 AM in response to Alex Nicholls

Try unzipping that 20MRI/20065_00000813.zip file by double clicking on it, all the other files are for Windows®.

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Apr 21, 2015 9:29 AM in response to BDAqua

Thank you - I sorted it out using Unarchive app.

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BDAqua

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Apr 21, 2015 9:34 AM in response to Alex Nicholls

Good work, great to hear! 🙂

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Answer 13

Jan 20, 2016 9:20 PM in response to BDAqua

Good to see your name again, BDAqua ! Warm greetings.🙂

Im looking for a version of the Osirix viewer that is compatible with Lion OSX 1.7.5. The site just keeps bouncing me around to various irrelevant versions.

This link http://www.osirix-viewer.com/OldVersions.html

returns a 404 Not Found error. 😝

Any help you or

anyone else can provide will be much appreciated.

Ramón

Ramón G Castañeda

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BDAqua

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Jan 21, 2016 10:40 AM in response to Ramón G Castañeda

Same 404 here, & the only possible links to older versions I find are those shady sites that commonly wrap the Apps in AdWare. 😟

If you want I can ask on my site if anybody has it... it was freeware right?

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Answer 15

Jan 21, 2016 11:23 AM in response to BDAqua

Thank you most kindly, BDAqua.

I downloaded version 4.0 (32 bits) of OsiriX, and it runs on Tiger 10.7.5. I could not manage to save or export the images as anything, but they opened nicely, so I just made screen shots of the two X-rays my wife wanted to send her orthopedist prior to her appointment next Monday. That worked well.

That OsiriX viewer is the most inscrutable thing ever to run on my Mac—at least without reading the documentation. 😝

Rgc

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