What is a .DCM file?
DCM is a DICOM medical image - an X-ray, CT or MRI scan with patient data.
- Did you know
- DICOM, standardised in 1993, is how hospitals store and exchange medical scans worldwide.
- DICOM grew out of the ACR-NEMA standard, whose first version appeared in 1985 so that scanners from rival makers could share images.
- A DICOM file bundles patient details and study metadata right alongside the pixel data of the scan.
- What Analyser reads
- Open scientific, medical and engineering files: DICOM scans, NIfTI brain volumes, Garmin FIT/TCX activities, FITS astronomy frames, FASTA/FASTQ sequences, chemistry structures (MOL/SDF/MOL2/CIF/XYZ), Gerber/Excellon PCB data, SPICE netlists, EDF/BDF biosignals, JCAMP-DX spectra, SPSS/Stata/SAS datasets and VTK/ParaView meshes - metadata extracted entirely in-browser.
- Depth of analysis
- .DCM is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .DCM file
- Drag a .DCM file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.