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I can't read a medical CD.

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brucine Posted messages 25236 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello

I can't read, nor can my doctor, a CD of a lung scan done at a hospital.

Can someone help me? It's urgent!

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    brucine Posted messages 25236 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 181
     

    Hello,

    The hospital is a bit of a joke, it's not supposed to provide just a CD if that’s the case, but rather a written interpretation from the radiologist who performed the procedure, along with supporting representative images.

    Medical images have a specific format (DICOM) which is not readable by standard software; there are, if I remember correctly, online viewers that can be installed, but I don't see why we would force the doctor or the patient to do that.

    If the CD is well done, it includes software that allows reading these images, which should be used instead of trying to read them directly.

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