Image credits: Nucleus Medical Media. Malicious DICOM files can be crafted to contain both CT and MRI scan imaging data and potentially dangerous PE executables, a process which can be used by ...

Weasis is a free medical image viewer software that lets you open DICOM files and images in other formats. To open a DICOM file, go to “File > Open > DICOM.” If you want to open the image ...

Digging deeper, the DICOM file format standard has a header with a 128-byte section at the beginning of the file, called the Preamble, that can be used to facilitate access to the images and ...