Check your scan before you send it
Drop the DICOM folder in and find out in seconds whether it can be used to build a surgical guide, model or implant — while the patient is still in the department, and before anyone has waited on it.
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Check one slice before the patient leaves
Drop a single image from the thin series into the checker. Slice thickness, kernel, gantry tilt, matrix and compression are all readable from one file. A wrong setting found now needs only a new reconstruction. After the patient has left it needs a repeat scan.
One slice cannot show missing slices, the true slice spacing, or whether every slice agrees with the others. Send the full study for that.
What it checks
The full check reads the whole series
One slice tells you the settings were right. Missing slices, mixed kernels and inconsistent geometry only show up across the series, so run the whole folder through before you send it.
Is this the source series?
Screenshots, 3D renders and reformats are identified and named, with what to send instead.
Is the whole series here?
Slices are counted against the numbering the scanner itself wrote, so an incomplete export is provable rather than suspected.
Slice thickness and spacing
Spacing is measured from the recorded slice positions, not read from the spacing tag — some scanners write that tag incorrectly.
Reconstruction kernel
Bone or soft, matched against your scanner make.
Compression
Lossless is fine. Lossy is detected from the file’s own record of it.
Consistency
Whether every slice agrees with the others on thickness, kernel and study identity.
Before you export
What makes a scan usable
Thin slices
Under 1 mm. 0.625 mm is best. Set the reconstruction increment (interval) no larger than the slice thickness.
Bone kernel
Reconstruct a sharp bone-algorithm series. Send the soft-tissue series too.
Thin axial source series
Send the thin axial series. A reformat cannot replace it.
The whole folder, uncompressed
Send the study as exported — every slice, one DICOM file each. No compression, no password.
Zero gantry tilt
Scan at 0°. No tilt, no oblique acquisition.
Do not edit the metadata
De-identify if you must. Never change acquisition values.
A thin bone-kernel series is a reconstruction, not a second scan. It is generated from raw data you have already acquired and costs the patient no additional radiation.