Opening cdrzip

Just spent the best part of a hundred quid on a check-up visit to the dentist and a few x-rays.

Thankfully my teeth are mostly all fine, although they did notice some gum recession (that isn't a great thing apparently)

Anyway, as the xrays are all digital (with the coolest little xray camera that they put in your mouth to take the picture) and, of course, I asked if I could have a copy.

Usually I would object to personal information being passed, unencrypted over the internet, but I don't think there was anything too sensitive the file.

Anyway the file that he sent me was called :

34BD93C9.CDRZIP

(one or two characters of the filename changed to protect the guilty)

Mmmmm... ZIP, I wonder if that's just simply compressed? 7-Zip does the job nicely (right-click, 'extract to')

We are left with a folder containing :

1,822 DICOMDIR 578,914 Image10 578,914 Image11 5,594 ViewSet1 4 File(s) 1,165,244 bytes

Of course, I start with the images. Thankfully, using GIMP, and specifying the 'open...' type as DICOM (although you will need to view 'all files' as these two don't have extensions) and you're left with a nice pretty picture. I just saved them as JPEG and the results are here :

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Click to enlarge.

The other two files are a binary mush, with waaaay too much personal info to post here, but I'm sure that the DICOM website and their interesting looking ftp site may be of use.