Am Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:59:56PM +0530 schrieb Sonali Warunjikar: > > > I have a carestream dental RVG device with USB interface and I am stuck > > > with their proprietary software for acquiring the RVG image which runs > > > only on Windows. Isn’t there any Linux based alternative by which I can > > > acquire the RVG over USB? > > > > > > I know there are a lot of imaging software options. My question is more > > > about acquiring the RVG over USB. > > > > A first step might be to explain field- (and > > language-)specific acronyms. > > Field: dentistry > RVG: Intraoral imaging device (digital xray) by carestream
Digital x-ray often works by sending DICOM files back and forth. Proprietary machines do proprietary things, however. There's something called a worklist which is where imaging requests are sent to and which is read by imaging devices in order to obtain patient data and procedure to perform. Then, DICOM (DCM) files containing the images are produced and sent back. But, this may well be totally different in a proprietary device. Your next step might be to research the options for getting the machine to speak DICOM. There may be a module from the vendor for doing so. It may do so under the hood, even over USB. The windows imaging application might work under Wine, or be put into a VM, and might possibly store the imaging results in a somehow accessible format, which you might be able to further process on the Linux side. One might consider the weird and wonderful way of exporting the images onto (virtual) CD-ROM from the windows software and reading that back into Linux, say, Orthanc. Karsten -- GPG 40BE 5B0E C98E 1713 AFA6 5BC0 3BEA AC80 7D4F C89B
