Comment Re:This could be fun.... (Score 1) 164
Most medical imaging equipment will dump out a DICOM file, which, IIRC, can be translated into the more typical 3D formats.
DICOM is a magical container format that is more than capable of storing data that no one can use.
In the best case, it contains the imagery in an unencrypted format that everyone can read like JPEG or TIFF.
Because it's the medical industry, it will instead contain an encrypted blob of proprietary imagery data that can only be read by a crappy Visual Basic program that the vendor supplies.
(At least, based on my brief experience trying to get useful data out of medical devices that did provide DICOM files that were universally in some vendor-specific format. And in at least one case were actually encrypted. You could get the raw imagery data out, using the Visual Basic program.)