OsiriX has been developed by Rosset, working in LaTour Hospital (Geneva, Switzerland) and Joris Heuberger, a computer scientist from Geneva. The OsiriX project started in 2004 at UCLA with Dr Antoine Rosset and Prof. A demo version, 'OsiriX Lite', still remains available free of charge with some limitations.
Its original source code is still available on Github. Since 2010, a commercial version of OsiriX, named 'OsiriX MD', is available. OsiriX is able to receive images transferred by DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or medical imaging modality (STORE SCP - Service Class Provider, STORE SCU - Service Class User, and Query/Retrieve).
It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image communication and image file formats. It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and QuickTime. OsiriX is complementary to existing viewers, in particular to nuclear medicine viewers. OsiriX is an image processing application for Mac dedicated to DICOM images ('.dcm' / '.DCM' extension) produced by equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT. Osirix free download - Navegatium DICOM Viewer for Windows 10, Athena DICOM Viewer for Windows 10, and many more programs.Osirix for pc free download - OsiriX, OsiriX MD, OsiriX HD, and many more programs.MacOS (Commercial software), iOS (commercial software)