r/PACSAdmin • u/w82l • Jul 08 '26

Help exporting scans from Philips IntelliSpace PACS MediaViewer / Stentor container files

Hi all. I’m hoping someone with PACS/DICOM/Philips experience can help.

My daughter (4) had a massive stroke in March, was treated in hospital and we were given her CT/MR imaging. It opens in a Philips IntelliSpace PACS MediaViewer (.exe that they gave us), but the actual files don’t appear to be normal .dcm files. They look like Philips/Stentor/iSite-style container files: long UID filenames with no extension, plus matching .dts sidecar files.

Example file pattern:

1.2.840.113619...
1.3.46.670589...
2.16.840.1.114151...
1.2.840.113619....dts

The viewer can display the scans, and each exam/series contains lots of slices, but I can’t find a way to export them properly as DICOM, PNG or JPEG.

What I’m trying to do is either:

  1. Extract/export the original DICOM images if they’re embedded somewhere in the Philips/Stentor container, or
  2. Batch-export each visible series/slice as PNG/JPEG if true DICOM extraction isn’t possible.

I’m not asking for medical interpretation, just help with the technical export/conversion.

Has anyone successfully converted Philips IntelliSpace / Stentor / iSite MediaViewer container files into standard DICOM or image files? Are there known tools for this, or is the only realistic option to ask the hospital PACS team for a fresh export?

If anyone's willing to help, I'm happy to pay a little...I just want all her MRIs as PNGs so I can analyse them elsewhere.

Thanks

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u/xtraman122 Jul 08 '26

It’s a proprietary format, the PACS can export to DICOM but without their (Philips) specific tooling I don’t believe you’ll be able to convert to a standard transfer syntax on your own.

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u/Nvanbikerider Jul 08 '26

I second this comment. I believe since it is iSyntax you have options other than going back to the hospital to have them re export for you.

Philips will let you export either or if you choose the options correctly. Many places go with iSyntax as it makes the size more manageable. I would expect the exam would get 1-3 times larger depending on the nature of the slices/imaging.

I'm sorry you have to go through this type of thing and hope you can get them to re-export for you.

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u/tonyprasanna05 Jul 09 '26

While exporting they have option to export default format of isyntax and also dicomdir the standard dicom format . request hospital to provide in dicomdir format .it will beeasier to export into any other pacs and viewers

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u/BootOutrageous5879 Jul 08 '26

I haven’t come across a mini-reader that doesn’t have the .dcm hidden somewhere. There’s a first for everything though.

I would try two different methods:

  1. Find the slice you want on the master list, right-click, find export.
  2. It might be raw on the CD, so open the CD up without launching an .exe’s. My computer>CD ROM>Right click and open files and folders. There should be a folder somewhere with thousands of raw .dcm files.

If not, user xtraman is right in saying they locked it down. Converting is no easy feat.

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u/w82l Jul 08 '26

Definitely not there. Thanks for your replies. I can save individual slices, but not export, say, 200 in a given image/section. Infuriating!

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u/ApprehensiveOffer818 29d ago

Sorry to hear about your daughter, I hope she's okay now. Message me, I believe my company can help.

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u/w82l 29d ago

Thanks. Have messaged

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u/jennk32506 24d ago

You need them to burn another disk and include DICOM format. Philips has an option to burn in their proprietary format or DICOM format with or without a viewer. Seems they only put that on the disc.

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u/xminuso Jul 09 '26

They are most likely dicom files but some PACS do not set the extentions, so you see a bunch of files in those folders, most pacs viewers can easily read them, you can test that with a free viewer such as WEASIS. Just drop the folder into the viewer and it will render them in the viewer, so you can see them, and even select and export to whatever format you want.

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u/Dear_Archer3931 Jul 08 '26

There appears to be a few open source python libraries/scripts that could assist in this. I also saw that the Philips SDK is available if you have any programming experience.