ShareMyXray Team - 09 February 2023

Receiving images

Downloading images

  • Once imaging is ready for you to view/download you will receive an email from us with the subject: Study notification for [STUDY_ID] Received from [Sending Site]

  • Navigate to the Imaging page

  • Select the images you wish to download but clicking the relevant rows in the imaging table

    • Note. You can select multiple rows at one time
  • Click the Download Imaging button and follow through the prompts, your images will then begin downloading and appear in your computer's downloads folder as SMX-study.zip

Imaging Screen

Viewing Images - Windows PCs

The file downloaded in the steps above comes as a compressed Zip file that will need to be unzipped.

  • In all versions of Windows, Right-click the file and select Extract All…

    • Alternatively, you can click into the folder and then click the run file, at which point you'll be asked to extract the files, Click Extract all
  • It will ask where you want your files to be put, you can change this by using the ‘Browse…‘ button.

  • Click ‘Extract‘ to unzip the files and navigate to the location you extracted them to.

  • To run the included viewer, open the newly created folder and click run.

  • The raw images are in the sub-folder IMAGES, please use this folder if you wish to import the images into PACS or your own viewer

Windows Download

Viewing Images - Mac/OSX

The file downloaded in the steps above comes as a compressed Zip file that will need to be unzipped.

  • In all versions of MacOS, double click the zip file and it will use the built in extraction tool.

  • The extracted folder will appear above the zip file

  • The images are grouped by Study ID and the raw images are below this

  • Use this with your favourite viewer or if you need a viewer look for DICOM viewer on the App Store

Mac Download

Importing to PACS

If you want to import the images into PACS, see here