The OsiriXBridge uses Objective-C distributed objects to establish a bidirectional communication between OsiriX and MeVisLab. OsiriX sends the filenames of all slices of the current dataset which are then converted by the EatDicom utility of MeVisLab depending on the state of the useEatDicom field. The resulting filename is passed to the filename field of the OsiriXBridge module.

The import of the DICOM slices sent by OsiriX is performed by the EatDicom import tool, a command line utility that can also be used independently of MeVisLab (e.g. as a background process). A number of command line parameters are available to fine-tune the import process, a list of these parameters is displayed by clicking the Help button in the Advanced Conversion Setup tab of the OsiriXBridge module panel (Figure 1.9, “Setup and output of the DICOM import process”).

Figure 1.9. Setup and output of the DICOM import process