DICOM Support in eViewer: Medical Imaging That Runs in Your Browser

Medical imaging visualization, analysis, and review entirely in your browser with eViewer. No installation. No plugin. Supports all modern browsers and loads cases from anywhere.

View DICOM Studies Without a Dedicated Workstation

Reviewing a medical image usually means opening a separate application, often on one specific machine. eViewer moves that step into the browser. Open a DICOM study, scroll through its frames, add annotations, and save them back to your repository from any modern browser. There is no plugin and no desktop client, and the original DICOM file stays unchanged.

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Precision Display Controls Built for Case Review

The display controls are right inside the browser, without a dedicated workstation.

Window Level

Adjust window level (brightness) and window width (contrast) to optimize image display for the region under review. Move the mouse to control window level and window width interactively in real time. The image updates immediately as the values change, letting users fine-tune the display without entering numeric fields.

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Frame Navigation

Frame Navigation

Navigate through multi-frame DICOM studies using the mouse scroll wheel. Each scroll increment advances or reverses the display by one frame. The viewer displays the current frame number and total frame count at all times, giving users a clear position reference within a large series without needing additional controls.

Zoom & Contrast Control

Zoom in and out on the active DICOM image using the mouse. Click and move the mouse upward to zoom in, downward to zoom out. Contrast adjustments are applied interactively alongside window level controls, allowing users to isolate and examine specific regions of an image at the display settings appropriate for the clinical context.

Annotate, Save, and Retrieve – Without Modifying the Source File

This section covers annotation persistence and saving back to ECM and EHR systems.

Annotation Support

Create annotations on any DICOM frame using eViewer’s annotation toolset. Available tools include measurement tools for size and area, highlights, shapes, sticky notes, and freehand drawing. Each annotation is tied to the specific frame it was placed on; a measurement placed on frame 14 of a CT series appears only when frame 14 is displayed.

Saving with Any ECM or EHR System

eViewer integrates with enterprise content management systems and electronic health records platforms, allowing annotations and case data to be saved directly back into the connected repository. Integrate with your Epic, athenahealth, NextGen EHR systems, or ECM platforms, including IBM FileNet P8, IBM Content Manager 8 (CM8), Microsoft SharePoint, and others.

View More Than Just DICOM Images

Clinical and administrative workflows rarely consist of DICOM files alone. Patient records, referral letters, insurance documents, discharge summaries, and consent forms accompany every case. eViewer opens all of them from the same session, so staff work in one viewer rather than switching between applications.

Supported file formats alongside DICOM are PDF/PDF-A, Microsoft files, TIFF, faxes, scanned documents, Word, Excel, emails, CAD, AFP, MO; DCA, and 100+ other formats.

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Frequently Asked Questions

eViewer supports CT scans, MRI, Ultrasound, and X-ray files. Both single-frame and multi-frame studies are supported. Each file renders at its native resolution in the browser viewport without requiring pre-conversion or format changes to the source DICOM file.

eViewer’s annotation tools are available on DICOM frames. Users can add sticky notes, draw freehand, mark regions of interest, and apply measurement tools directly on the image. Annotations are frame-specific and are stored as a JSON data layer; the original DICOM source file is never modified. Saved annotations reload correctly when the case is reopened.

No. In eViewer, DICOM files open directly in any modern browser with no software to install on the user’s device, no plugin, and no desktop client. Case files can be rendered from any location where the user has browser access to the server or connected repository.

Yes. eViewer displays patient metadata from the DICOM file header as an overlay on the image viewport. Displayed fields include patient name, patient age, study description, and more. The overlay appears in the standard corner positions expected in clinical viewing environments. If a metadata field is absent from the DICOM header, it is omitted from the overlay without leaving a blank space.

Yes. eViewer integrates with IBM FileNet P8, IBM CM8, Microsoft SharePoint, OpenText Documentum, Alfresco, and other ECM platforms, as well as EHR platforms including Epic, athenahealth, NextGen, and others. Annotations created on DICOM frames are saved back into the connected repository through the same save workflow used for all other document types in the environment.

Window level (brightness) and window width (contrast) are adjusted interactively using the mouse. The user clicks and moves the mouse to change the values in real time; the image updates immediately as the display settings change. This allows users to optimize the image for the specific body region under review without entering numeric values manually.

No. eViewer is a browser-based viewer for DICOM files stored in your content repository. It is not a hardware-integrated PACS system.

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