What is like an MRI? And as someone who peripherally deals with this sort of proprietary crap regularly, they almost never connect to anything nicely. Things have got better recently with people starting to follow te DICOM spec, but brand new GE MRI, PET, CT and X-ray rooms will not interface properly with our radiology information system. They also have a bug whereby any image post processing is uniquely identified by time (hour, minute second). It turn out this isn't unique and will merge patient's imaging when you use an off-the-shelf and popular system like Intellipacs. Oops. Philips is better, just. Their scanners just dump these files all over the picture archive and communication system which are called PR files. No one knows what they are, they just come out the scanners and are spread everywhere. I'd like to think Siemens are better but I only have a small amount of experience with this manufacturer.