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murxmaster
Just opened some DICOM-Files with notepad. Found patient data (name) and diagnostic parameters encoded as ASCII art. Funny.
arpa
NGL, it is pretty cool. What could be the reason for this behavior?
techdragon
Looks kinda like ASCI-Art used to represent a greyscale image data area, like it could be so they can put "notes data" and someone got the idea to just scan this "notes" and figured ascii-art was the easy way since it was black and white info anyway.

Just a hunch though... If theres a specific reason I'd love to know too.