CD drive fails to copy medical MRI data to a host

[Augie77]

I have had an issue twice now, where trying to upload the MRI DICOM folder, which contain image files in an unknown format to me, from a read only CD to the doctors website fails. Eventually the site responds back the upload has completed but the CD continues to chug and whirl until I run out of memory, where the system then crashes. If I take the same CD and go to my Window 7 box the upload works problem free.

The DVD drive on my Debian box is a USB LG Slim Portable DVD writer, model GP65NW60 and works fine for music and other CD / DVD activity. The Window 7 has an in-bay Plextor that has worked well for years.

Have anyone see this behaviour before?

[CwF]

I have set up something like that in the past and found the cd contains a windows executable. So, a CD is provided as an individuals medical record containing the data and the integrated program. I think a Siemens or Minolta program of some sort is there, and did run under wine. I did dabble around some with the data but could not make sense of it.

The data is not a picture, but a 3d array of data where the program decides what and how to display. Much like how a cad program reads a dwg with many layers and possible viewpoints. I doubt there is a native linux utility for the purpose. <-- I was wrong!

[Augie77]

Ah...I had wondered what the files contained. Not sure why I can not upload those to the doctors website though, seems like his site, the CD drive and Debian file services can't agree on when there is an EOF or some form of transfer termination. I worked around it this time by copying the DICOM folder to USB thumb drive and then uploading from that and it worked successfully. Something to do with this LG DVD Writer I suppose.

[arzgi]

I have used dicomscope to view my medical pictures.

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arto@dell:~$ aptitude search dicom
p   dicom3tools                                     - DICOM medical image files manipulation and conversion tool
p   dicomnifti                                      - converts DICOM files into the NIfTI format                
i   dicomscope                                      - OFFIS DICOM Viewer                                        
p   dicomscope-doc                                  - OFFIS DICOM Viewer - documentation                        
i A libdicomscope-jni                               - OFFIS DICOM Viewer (JNI files)                            
p   libvtk-dicom-dev                                - DICOM for VTK - dev                                       
p   libvtkdicom0.8                                  - DICOM for VTK - lib                                       
p   octave-dicom                                    - manipulate DICOM files in Octave                          
p   orthanc-dicomweb                                - Plugin to extend Orthanc with support of WADO and DICOMweb
v   python-dicom-doc                                -                                                           
p   python-pydicom-doc                              - DICOM medical file reading and writing (documentation)    
p   python3-dicom                                   - transitional package for python3-pydicom                  
p   python3-dicompylercore                          - core radiation therapy modules for DICOM / DICOM RT used b
p   python3-pydicom                                 - DICOM medical file reading and writing (Python 3)         
p   python3-vtk-dicom                               - DICOM for VTK - Python                                    
p   vtk-dicom-tools                                 - DICOM for VTK - tools                                     
arto@dell:~$ 

[Augie77]

@arzgi Well, now that is neat, thank you!

[CwF]

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/dicomscope

Thanks @arzgi

[eamanu]

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