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With Dicom Media Bridge you can play your Dicom files with media players or convert them to video files. An excellent alternative to the Dicom viewers: View your Dicom files with Media Player- convert your Dicom files to WMV or RealVideo
- right-click on a Dicom file to copy and paste the image in thousand of applications including Microsoft Word and Powerpoint(1) (Windows XP only)
- browse their thumbnail previews
Click here to download the demo version (limited resolution)
Click here to buy Dicom Media Bridge Single user license (29 USD)
(see below if you need a site license) Dicom Media Bridge is a dicom codec for Windows(1) that allows multimedia applications to read and display multiframe or single-frame Dicom files. Now you can view the Dicom thumbnail in the file explorer, convert a Dicom file into an AVI, DIVX, WMV or other media file so they can be included in your documents or Powerpoint(1) presentations, or use your preferred movie player as a dicom viewer for multiframe dicom files. On Windows XP right-click on a file with .dcm, .dic or .dicom extension and click on "Copy" and voilà, the image can be pasted into any application that can handle images, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint(1), Adobe Photoshop(2), OpenOffice(3) and thousand of other With Dicom Media Bridge you can: - Use your preferred media player (e.g. Windows Media Player(1) or Divx Player(4)) as a dicom viewer
- Transform your Dicom files into Windows Media Video files (WMV) or RealVideo (RV) with the free applications Windows Media Encoder(1) or RealProducer(5)
- Prepare nice presentations using Windows Movie Maker(1) or other Video Editing applications
- Embed the videos converted with Dicom Media Bridge and the free tool Windows Media Encoder(1) in your PowerPoint presentations
- View thumbnail previews of the Dicom files in your folders (only for the files that have the dcm, dic or dicom extension)
- Display the main Dicom tags directly in the files explorer (feature not available on Windows Vista and Windows 7)
- Copy the Dicom images into your preferred application, like Microsoft Word or Powerpoint(1) directly from the files explorer (feature not available on Windows Vista and Windows 7)
 A dicom file is being displayed in Windows Media Player Dicom Media Bridge can read Dicom files and NEMA files that contain images in one of the following formats: - Uncompressed
- RLE compressed
- Jpeg lossless (up to 16 bits per color channel)
- Jpeg lossy (up to 12 bits per color channel)
 A dicom file is being displayed with Divx Player Dicom Media Bridge fits the Dicom images into a rectangle with the width/height ratio of 4/3, so they will not be stretched by applications that can deal only with video samples (e.g.: Windows Movie Maker).
High resolution images are scaled down to a maximum resolution of 768 by 576 pixels, to avoid artifacts introduced by DirectShow when the video samples’ size exceedes the size of the memory installed in the video card.
 A dicom file has been converted to an rm file with RealProducer from RealNetwork
System requirements:- Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7 (shell extensions are disabled on Vista and Windows 7)
- DirectX 8 or newer
- Pentium Pro, Pentium 2 or better
- 256Mb of memory or more
- true colors display
- the visualization of Dicom files as video files requires a media player (Windows Media Player1 ) or other players compatible with the DirectShow technology)
- the conversion of Dicom files to video files requires a video converter or video editor compatible with the DirectShow technology (Windows Media Encoder1, Windows Movie Maker1 , RealProducer5 or others converters and editors compatible with the DirectShow technology)
Using Dicom Media Bridge with Windows Media Player(1).
Once Dicom Media Bridge has been installed, you can view a Dicom file with by double clicking on it. This procedure will open only the Dicom files that have the extension dcm, dic or dicom.
If you want to open a Dicom file that doesn’t have one of the previously specified extensions then you can change the extension of the file to .dcm or .avi, or load it directly from Windows Media Player (using the command Open in the File menu).
(1) Microsoft, Windows, Word, Powerpoint, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Encoder and Movie Maker are trade marks registered by Microsoft (2) Adobe and Photoshop is a trade marks registered by Adobe (3) OpenOffice is distributed by OpenOffice.org (4) Divx is a trade mark registered by Divx, inc (5) RealProduced is a trade mark registered by Real Site license A license for a single user costs 29 USD , but you can consider a site license if you have to install Dicom Media Bridge on several PCs. Click here to buy Dicom Media Bridge Site License (299 USD)
Click here to view the Dicom Media Bridge Site license
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