Open a hand or finger MRI, X-ray, or CT export straight from the disc or the portal download, no hospital software required. Step through the whole-hand radiograph, a dedicated three-view series of one digit, or a small-coil MRI stack, and get a plain language explanation of what a metacarpal fracture, a flexor pulley injury, or a thumb ligament tear looks like on the actual images.
Open Your Hand or Finger DICOMA hand or finger study tends to travel light compared to a large joint, because the field of view is small and each object covers only a few centimetres of anatomy. A typical radiograph order bundles a PA view of the whole hand with a dedicated three-view series — PA, lateral, and oblique — of one injured digit, and each of those views is usually stored as its own separate DICOM object rather than packed into a single multi-frame file. When more than one finger is in question, the radiographer sometimes shoots each digit as its own labelled series rather than one combined set, so a folder can hold several near-identical three-view groups that only differ by which finger they cover. MRI of a finger uses a small dedicated coil and produces a short stack — often well under a hundred images per plane — because the anatomy being covered is a thumb or a single digit rather than an entire limb. When trauma raises suspicion of a comminuted metacarpal fracture, CT usually contributes thin axial slices through the hand along with sagittal and coronal reformats built from that same thin-slice data, so a single CT order can still produce a handful of distinct series even though the anatomy in view is small.
Every hand or finger DICOM object carries header fields worth reading before the image itself. The series description usually names which digit was imaged — something like “RT INDEX FINGER OBL” or “LT THUMB LAT” — alongside a body part examined field that should read hand or finger rather than something broader. Laterality records left or right, which matters for confirming not just the hand but which specific digit within it was studied, since a series description can be abbreviated or occasionally mislabelled. Pixel spacing shows how fine the acquisition really is: hand and finger radiographs are often captured at a noticeably tighter spacing than a large-joint film because the region of interest is so much smaller, and a finger MRI's in-plane resolution reflects the small coil used to acquire it. Slice thickness tells you how the anatomy was sliced through, which matters for judging whether a CT series is thin enough to reformat cleanly. The study date anchors the exam relative to an injury, a splint change, or a follow-up visit, and the window centre and width record the exact contrast setting the reporting radiologist used when they signed off on the bone or soft-tissue window they were looking at.
Because a hand study can bundle several near-identical per-digit series into one folder, it's worth checking the header before assuming a given series shows the finger you care about. Open the series description first and match it against the digit named in the referral — thumb, index, middle, ring, or little finger — rather than trusting a thumbnail that can look similar across digits at a glance. Cross-check laterality against left or right, since a mismatched hand is an easy mistake when more than one exam sits in the same folder. If a series description is ambiguous or missing a digit label entirely, the body part examined field and the image itself, read alongside pixel spacing, usually make it clear whether you're looking at a full hand view or a tightly collimated single-digit series.
Radiograph series on a hand study are usually named after the view rather than the anatomy, so you'll see labels like “PA”, “OBL”, or “LAT” standing for posteroanterior, oblique, and lateral, sometimes prefixed with the digit or with “RT” or “LT” for the hand side. A finger MRI ordered to check a pulley or a collateral ligament typically pairs a T1-weighted series for anatomy with a fat-saturated T2 or STIR series for fluid and edema, so a series description reading something like “T2 FS AX FINGER” is the one worth opening first when a tear or a strain is in question. Reading the view and sequence off the series description, rather than guessing from a thumbnail, is the fastest way to land on the exact image a hand surgeon's report is referring to.
Drop a hospital CD export, USB folder, DICOM ZIP archive, or individual .dcm files. Series are organised automatically by modality, date, and description.
Navigate slices, adjust windowing presets, zoom and pan, and measure distances in millimetres. When the series has sufficient volume data, multi-planar reconstruction (MPR) and 3D rendering are available.
Four independent AI models analyze rendered images with modality-aware prompts. Claude synthesizes a structured report with findings, severity grading, and a downloadable PDF.
Once a hand or finger folder loads, the viewer parses every header, groups objects into their separate series, and sorts each stack into order rather than relying on filenames. Because a single study can hold several per-digit series side by side, you can open the whole-hand view next to a dedicated three-view series of one finger and flip between them to confirm a fracture line or a joint-space finding seen on one view against another. A finger MRI stack is short and high resolution, so scrolling through it is quick, and the window centre and width adjust independently to favour bone detail or soft-tissue contrast around a tendon or a collateral ligament. On-image measurement lets you check the angulation at a metacarpal neck fracture or the size of a gap where a flexor tendon has retracted. When a CT series has thin, evenly spaced axial slices — the kind ordered for a comminuted metacarpal fracture — the same headers let the viewer build sagittal and coronal reconstructions and an interactive 3D volume on top of the original data.
A hospital disc for a hand or finger study almost always ships with its own bundled viewer program, and that program is typically a Windows executable that simply won't launch on a Mac, a Chromebook, or a phone. The DICOM objects underneath it carry no such restriction — the format is portable and vendor-neutral, so any standards-compliant reader, including a browser-based one, can open the exact same per-digit series and radiographs without the bundled installer ever running. If the disc's own program refuses to start, skip it and point a DICOM-capable viewer at the folder of objects directly.
A dozen or so sub-millimetre axial slices covering one finger sound like ideal material for a 3D reconstruction, but the field of view is so narrow that there's rarely enough surrounding soft tissue and bone context in the stack for a volume render to look convincing. Multi-planar reformats from that same thin-slice data still work well, because they only need consistent slice spacing to resample the volume along a different plane. A full 3D render reads best off a wider CT acquisition — the whole hand rather than one digit — where there's enough volume around the fracture or joint of interest for the surface to reconstruct cleanly.
AI support can describe what a rendered hand or finger frame shows and translate a radiology report's wording into plain language, but it does not replace an orthopedic hand surgeon or a licensed radiologist's reading. Use it to prepare sharper questions for a follow-up appointment — especially when a report mentions a specific pulley grade, a UCL tear classification, or a Salter-Harris pattern in a younger patient's growth plate that you don't recognize.
Load a hospital CD export, USB drive folder, DICOM ZIP archive, or individual .dcm files directly in your browser. No conversion or special software needed.
Raw DICOM files stay on your device. All parsing and rendering happens in your browser using WebAssembly and the Canvas API. Nothing is uploaded for viewing.
Works in any modern browser — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. No plugins, no Java, no desktop software to download or update.
Four independent AI models analyze rendered images using modality-aware prompts for MRI, X-ray, and CT. Claude synthesizes a consensus report with confidence levels.
Multi-planar reconstruction (MPR) and 3D volume rendering are available when the series contains sufficient contiguous slices — common in CT and high-resolution MRI.
Generate a professional report with structured findings, severity grading, model agreement, and clinical recommendations — ready to share with your physician.
DICOM (.dcm) — individual image files from any scanner
ZIP archives — containing multiple DICOM series or views
DICOM folders — dropped directly from a CD, USB, or local disk
Hospital CD and USB exports — standard DICOMDIR layout supported
All standard transfer syntaxes — Implicit VR Little Endian, Explicit VR Little Endian, Explicit VR Big Endian, JPEG Lossless (1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.70)
All major modalities — MRI, X-ray (CR/DR), CT, CBCT, ultrasound, mammography
8-bit, 12-bit, and 16-bit pixel depth
MONOCHROME1 and MONOCHROME2 photometric interpretation
Scanner compatibility — Siemens, GE, Philips, Canon, Hitachi, and all other DICOM-compliant devices
Hand and finger studies use a small field of view, so each series covers only one view or one digit and ends up as its own compact folder. A whole-hand radiograph, a three-view series of one finger, and a small-coil MRI stack of another finger can all sit side by side in the same export without being combined.
Check the series description first — it usually names the digit, such as “RT INDEX OBL” or “LT THUMB LAT”. If that's ambiguous, the body part examined field and the laterality field together usually resolve which hand and which digit the series covers.
Yes. A small-coil finger MRI stack is read the same way as any other DICOM series — headers are parsed, slices are sorted into order, and you scroll through the stack with full window and zoom control.
Usually not on its own. A narrow single-digit CT stack lacks the surrounding volume a convincing render needs, though multi-planar reformats still work well from the same thin slices. A wider hand CT reconstructs more reliably.
No. Raw DICOM files are parsed and rendered locally in your browser. Only rendered images are transmitted, and only when you explicitly request AI-assisted analysis.
Most bundled disc viewers are Windows-only executables and won't launch on macOS, ChromeOS, or a phone. The DICOM data itself is portable regardless of the bundled program, so a browser-based reader opens the same folder directly.
Yes. The viewer groups DICOM objects by series regardless of modality, so a whole-hand radiograph and a finger MRI stack included in the same folder or ZIP both appear, and you can switch between them freely.
Yes, viewing every series is free with no limit. AI-assisted explanation of a hand or finger study is available separately for $10 per session.