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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What it checks
It reads the whole series, not one file
Most problems are invisible in a single slice — missing slices, mixed kernels and inconsistent geometry only show up across the series.
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
The 60-second version
If you read nothing else on this page, this is what makes a scan usable.
Thin slices
0.625 mm ideal, 1 mm maximum. Reconstruct at an increment no larger than the slice thickness, constant across the whole series.
Bone kernel
Reconstruct a sharp / bone-algorithm series. A soft-tissue kernel alone cannot be segmented into an accurate bone model.
Thin axial source series
The model is built from the original axial images, so the thin axial series must be in what you send. A coronal or sagittal reformat cannot stand in for it. If in doubt, send the whole study — what matters is that the thin axials are in it.
The whole folder, uncompressed
Every slice, DICOM format, one file per slice, no lossy compression, no bundled viewer, no password.
Zero gantry tilt
Tilt skews the acquired volume. Scan at 0°.
Do not edit the metadata
De-identify if you need to — but never change acquisition values. We measure the geometry independently, so edited tags cannot make a scan usable.
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.