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Re: Preserving X-RAY CD

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On 2018-09-25 21:30:02 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> I have a CD with the various X-rays taken after my accident in july.
> 
> At the file system level, most files have no extension and you need
> special software to view the x-rays. They are DICOM images, and
> Photoshop is able to somewhat open them if you tell it to look at any
> file type.  Bridge treats them as binary documents.
> 
> This creates a path such as:
> 
> /Volumes/mezei jean-franc/DICOM/PA000000/ST000001/SE000001/IM000000
> (where the last one is the actual image file)
> 
> What would be the recommended strategy to preserve this CD in usable
> fashion on disk?
> 
> just drag/drop the volume into a folder?
> create a .dmg?
> other ?

If it's a normal Windows-style CD, then any usual backup method should 
be fine. As always, multiple backups would be best, and check them from 
time to time to make sure they're still usable.



> The reason I ask is whether others had similar experiences and found one
> way worked better than another with regards to using X-ray viewing
> software or if one way has some "gotchas".
> 
> 
> As well, if I wanted to make them more "usable", what extesion should
> DICOM files have ? and would renaming these files to have an extesion
> ruin the x-ray software's ability to index the files ?
<snip>

Don't play about with them in any way. Even opening them is a waste of 
time, unless you're a trained doctor or radiographer. Just back them up 
and keep them somewhere safe for the rare event that they're actually 
needed again.

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Preserving X-RAY CD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-25 17:30 -0400
  Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-25 22:57 +0000
  Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-26 13:27 +1200
    Re: Preserving X-RAY CD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-25 23:24 -0400
  Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-26 02:01 +0000
    Re: Preserving X-RAY CD JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-25 23:27 -0400
      Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-26 15:52 +0000
        Re: Preserving X-RAY CD ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-09-28 19:00 -0500
  Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Supermarine Spitfire <spitfire@spitfireflyinghigh.com> - 2018-09-26 10:45 +0100
    Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-26 10:31 +0000
  Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2018-09-26 07:47 -0700
    Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-26 15:59 +0000
      Re: Preserving X-RAY CD befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2018-09-27 08:32 +0200
        Re: Preserving X-RAY CD Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-27 14:48 +0000

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