Supported media formats

Disk formats
Manufacturer Medium Format Notes
Alphatronix 5¼" MOD/WORM Alphatronix  
Camtronics 5¼" MOD/WORM Camtronics  
Elscint 5¼" MOD/WORM UNIX "efs"  
5¼" MOD/WORM FAT-16 Adaptec's variation of the standard Windows format
GE 5¼" MOD ODRP "Optical Disk Raw Partition". There are 2 variations of this format. One is used to store SIGNA images, the other to store NM images in DICOM
5¼" WORM DoroFile This format use a re-mapping on top of a ODRP format to store SIGNA images on a WORM
5¼" MOD/WORM GE PACE developed by Yokogawa for the PACE scanner.
5¼" MOD/WORM GEMS PET  
Hitachi 5¼" MOD/WORM RM-WXS The images on these disks are in MR HDL1 format
Imatron 5¼" MOD/WORM RT-11 RT-11 is a file format used by old DEC systems.
Optimed 5¼" MOD/WORM KOM To be WORM compatible, Optimed use a "KOM" re-mapping of the disk on top of a standard FAT16 or NTFS system
Philips 5¼" MOD CT-WXS The images on these disks are in CT HDL1 format
5¼" MOD/WORM SPI This format is used by Philips and Siemens.
5¼" MOD/WORM Ultrasound This format is used on some Philips Ultrasound systems
Picker 5¼" MOD/WORM PICR  
Shimadzu 5¼" MOD/WORM IS&C This Japanese format is also referred to as ISAC. readOmatic will merge both the header and data parts of the image to create one NEMA file.
Siemens 12" & 5¼" MOD/WORM SPI  
5¼" MOD/WORM SIENET The archive format of the SIENET workstation.
Toshiba 5¼" MOD/WORM IS&C This Japanese format is also referred to as ISAC. readOmatic will merge both the header and data parts of the image to create one NEMA file.
5¼" MOD/WORM UNIX "efs" and "xfs"  
Walter Graphtek 5¼" MOD/WORM Walter Graphtek  
Other MOD FAT-12,16 and 32, NTFS These Windows disk formats are used by most modern scanners for DICOM disks.
MOD MacOS HTF/HFS This disk formats is used by some scanners running on Mac systems.
MOD UNIX "BSD", "efs", "xfs", "ufs", "jfs" "ufs" (Unix file system) and "BSD" (Berkeley Software Distribution) are the most commun UNIX flavors. "efs" and "xfs" are used on SGI systems. "jfs" is from IBM's AIX systems.
MOD VMS Used by DEQ on their VAX computers.
NA DICOMDIR DICOMDIR is a file directory that sits on top of the disk format. When readOmatic encounters a DICOMDIR file, it uses the information from the file to structure the file tree with a patient/study/series/image hierarchy.

Tape formats
Manufacturer Medium Format Notes
GE 9 Track Tape CT9800  
9 Track Tape GENESIS  
9 Track Tape SIGNA  
4mm DAT Tape SIGNA The images on these tapes are in a variation of the Signa-5 format. ReadOmatic will re-order the image blocks to create standard Signa-5 files
Imatron 9 Track Tape    
Philips 9 Track Tape HDL1  
9 Track Tape NEMA-1  
Picker 9 Track Tape MR6B  
8mm Exabyte Tape IQ/PQ  
Siemens 9 Track Tape SOMATOM  
9 Track Tape SPI  
Other 9 Track Tape BRU "Backup and Restore Utility"
9 Track Tape/QIC/DAT TAR "Tape Archive". It is probably the most commonly used tape format.
Any Tapes ANSI This tape format was used by VMS, IBM and a few other manufacturers

Other formats

If you are using a scanner or a format which is not on the list above please contact TomoVision to see how we can help you!