On Sat, 02 May 2015 20:22:57 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Alek wrote:

I have a DVD of a recent MRI and I want to make a copy to give to a
"second opinion" doc?

How do I do that? I think the DVD has it's own viewing program
installed, so I thought that if I could make an image of the DVD and
burn it to a new one, that would work?

Is that what's called "ripping"?

Why not just copy the whole DVD to another DVD-R[W]? The doc will use
his own DICOM-capable viewer. Or have the 2nd doc's office get the
images from the 1st doc's office. You or your insurance paid for those
images so they are not the property of any doctor. You may have to sign
a release form with the 2nd doc that they can present to the 1st doc to
obtain what is probably designated as privileged information (although
you may have already signed such a release form with the 1st doc).

I assume the machine only has a single DVD drive. To avoid problems and
to keep a permanent copy, create an .iso image then burn that to DVD. Do
a search for utilities to do this if not already available in windows 8,
there are free ones out there.