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Excellent Free DICOM Viewers – Medical Imaging Software

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Steve Emms
Oct 10, 2018

This article focuses on software that lets you view images generated from DICOM devices.

DICOM (an acronym for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is a worldwide standard in Health IT and is provided by the National Electrical Manufacturers Assocation (NEMA). It’s the standard open image format used to handle, store, print and transmit information in medical imaging. This standard specifies the way medical images and metadata like study or patient related data are stored and communicated over different digital medias.

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