Aeskulap

Designed for medical specialists, Aeskulap enables you to view DICOM image files and look up patient information. It's a free software application with simple and intuitive options.

Prerequisite components, console and graphical UI

During the installation step, the tool informs you that it requires the GTK+ 2.10 and gtkmm 2.10 runtime environments installed, and guides you to their online location for download and setup.
As far as the interface is concerned, the program runs two separate windows side by side: one represents the graphical frontend, while the other gets launched in a console window. It doesn't put emphasis on the GUI's appearance, preferring to focus on features instead.

View DICOM images, study and search patient details

After opening a DICOM image file, you should be able to view in the main window and enter fullscreen mode. Aeskulap also loads the study list with the patient's personal information, including name, description, modality, date and time, station, and server.
Information can be filtered by name, modality and date, while advanced search operations can be conducted with the study description, patient ID, and station name.
As far program settings are concerned, you can change the local AET server name and port number, switch to another character set, create and manage multiple servers into various groups to easily recall them later, run echo tests, as well as edit the preset modality details and add new entries to the list.

Evaluation and conclusion

The software utility didn't put a strain on the overall performance of the machine in our tests, using a low amount of CPU and memory. On the other hand, it crashed a couple of times while we were tinkering with its interface, and failed in its attempt to open many DICOM images.
We must also take into account that Aeskulap hasn't been updated for a long while, so these compatibility issues are likely to happen. Nevertheless, you can test it for yourself.