What is a .DICOM file?
DICOM stores a medical scan together with patient and study information.
- Did you know
- DICOM, standardised in 1993, is the universal format for hospital imaging.
- DICOM grew out of the earlier ACR-NEMA standard, begun in the 1980s by American radiologists and electrical manufacturers.
- A DICOM file bundles the image together with the patient, study and equipment details in a structured data dictionary.
- 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
- .DICOM 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 .DICOM file
- Drag a .DICOM 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.