How to e-mail medical X-rays?

[archkre]

Do you know any method to e-mail medical X-ray copies?

Is there any method , program or plug in to do that?

Thanks a lot!

[Brian Smith]

There's a cool program called Outlook:D

What makes Xray images any different from other images?

[Elliot]

Daniel,

 

My brother is a neuro-radiologist. He sends me X-ray films as JPG's and sometimes even as MPG's. I know from his office they send to him images on the internet which he reads on a Toshiba laptop.

 

He used to have a very expensive monitor on his basement but as technology has progressed he reads them now on the laptop.

 

Regards

Elliot

[soulctrla]

I would suggest - the emailing is easy

 

its the capture that is the important bit.

 

How do you get the image on the computer in the first instance.

 

I dont know alot about xray machines - presumably now they are digital ?

 

if they are then they could output straight to computer with a program able to generate Jpeg or something.

 

If they are still on film then i reckon they need scanning properly

 

our scanner in the office has difference options... one of which is XRAY

[archkre]

What I have are hard copies of dental X-rays

I would need some PS post processing after scanning to make the images visible w/ best possible details

Take into account in real life you need to watch them thru fluorescent light to see those details!

Thanks

[wilky9]

By sheer coincidence, I just picked up some x-rays from the hospital on Friday. When I called to ask about getting them, they asked if I wanted film or disk. Since I was planning on scanning them in anyway, I chose the disk format. What they gave me is an image reader and the x-rays in an odd format (not standard PS readable images). The program has a neat magnifying glass function that zooms in to a very high level of detail, and it will export the x-rays out at a pretty large size (not sure precisely, but it's big).

 

So, if you have the choice, get the ones already scanned in. They look much better than the ones I did here in the office with our scanner.

 

P.S. I broke my right wrist and left thumb in mid-April. Hard way to get out of a week and a half of work! I'll share the scans if you want.

[BrianKitts]

you pretty much need to find either a large format film scanner (good luck with that) .... or best is to find a scanner with an xray mode as mentioned before or a transparency adapter. beyond that its just tweaking you brightness/contrast levels in photoshop to get the detail balanced and visible.