A scan on a CD or in an email is no use in the room. ClinyPal opens DICOM files in the browser, with measuring tools, straight from the patient's documents.

Open a scan

A scan uploaded as a .dcm file is filed under DICOM on the patient's Documents section. Select it and it opens in the viewer in place of the list, with a Full screen control for a closer look. A DICOM file can be up to 20 MB, against 512 KB for other documents, so a single image or a short series fits but a whole CT study usually won't.

The DICOM viewer showing an X-ray with a measurement line drawn on it, a toolbar of viewing and measuring tools, and a side panel of DICOM information.
A knee X-ray open in the DICOM viewer with the Length tool measuring a distance and the image details shown.

The tools

  • Move and view: Pan, Zoom and Window / level are the everyday tools. Under More are Rotate 90°, Flip left–right, Flip up–down, Invert, Fit to screen and Reset view. A scan with several frames steps through them with the wheel or the arrow keys, and Space plays them.
  • Window presets: brightness and contrast set for Chest, Lung, Abdomen, Bone, Brain, Stroke, Subdural, Spine, Liver or Angio, and From the file to go back to the scan's own setting.
  • Measure: Length, Angle, Cobb angle, Ellipse area, Rectangle area, Bidirectional, Pixel value for a single point, and Arrow note for pointing something out. Eraser, Undo and Clear this image take marks off again.
  • Under Show, Image details puts the scan's recorded details, such as date, modality and series, on the image or takes them off, next to Scale ruler, Crosshair and Sync scrolling, which keeps two images in step when you Compare side by side.

Measurements and arrow notes are saved with the scan, not written into the file, so whoever opens it next sees them; while yours show as Unsaved notes, select Save. Someone whose role can't change patient documents sees Read only and their marks aren't kept. A measurement that matters belongs in the treatment note as well.