>>Thanks, that site looks like it has much useful information ... I will dig in ... after lunch!
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>If you find any usable ActiveX or a dll that can be used from VFP to extract info into any format (jpg, text...) that's viewable without special software, i.e. that can export image and data from DICOM programmatically, please post here.


Here is a free tool to extract image data.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/