DICOMBurner: User Manual [
DB-UM-3 – Rev B
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2 Indications for use
The DICOMBurner software allows receiving and storing DICOM files on a database residing on a
networked PC. In addition DICOMBurner allows burning DICOM files on one or more CDs or DVDs, with an
embedded autorunning viewer. It is intended as a mean to produce digital media containing medical images,
to be provided to patients in substitution of the traditional film hard copies of the exams. Also the produced
media can be used to exchange DICOM files between non-connected PACS or DICOM workstations. The
images stored on the CDs/DVDs can be directly viewed on a normal PC through the embedded autorunning
DICOM Viewer; this software is meant for review of the medical images, and not for diagnosis. Nevertheless,
the DICOM images stored by DICOMBurner provide no quality loss with respect to the original images (no
lossy compression is used by DICOMBurner), hence they can be used as an element for diagnosis once
they are transferred or imported on a PACS diagnostic workstation.