# Downloading Studies (DICOMS) from IDC which is not the current one - paying customer

**URL:** <https://discourse.canceridc.dev/t/downloading-studies-dicoms-from-idc-which-is-not-the-current-one-paying-customer/727>\
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**Created:** [July 12, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/t/downloading-studies-dicoms-from-idc-which-is-not-the-current-one-paying-customer/727 "2025-07-12T16:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tomer\_Braier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.canceridc.dev/tomer_braier/32/598_2.png) [@Tomer\_Braier](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/u/Tomer_Braier)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/t/downloading-studies-dicoms-from-idc-which-is-not-the-current-one-paying-customer/727/1 "2025-07-12T16:05:26Z")

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Hi,  
I have a paying profile.  
I am having a research on brain MRI related to stroke.  
I used BigQuery and ran a query on IDC\_v10 using 'study description has %stroke% and gladly found a group of studies.  
The access to all of them seems to be ‘limited’ and they are all located in gs://idc-open-idc.  
How can I , as a paying account, access those studies and download them ?

Thanks in advance

Tomer Braier

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**Author:** ![fedorov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.canceridc.dev/fedorov/32/3_2.png) [@fedorov](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/u/fedorov)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/t/downloading-studies-dicoms-from-idc-which-is-not-the-current-one-paying-customer/727/2 "2025-07-14T14:48:13Z")

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> [@Tomer\_Braier](#):
>
> I have a paying profile.

I am not sure what you are referring to, since IDC does not have a concept of a “paying profile”. All of the data we are hosting is available to anyone, without requiring any profile or login, and without charge.

> [@Tomer\_Braier](#):
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> I used BigQuery and ran a query on IDC\_v10 using 'study description has %stroke% and gladly found a group of studies.

I confirm that running the query below there is one study that meets the search criteria.

```sql
SELECT
  DISTINCT(collection_id),
  StudyInstanceUID,
  Modality
FROM
  `bigquery-public-data.idc_v10.dicom_all`
WHERE
  LOWER(StudyDescription) LIKE "%stroke%"

```

The study identified belongs to the [TCGA-GBM collection](https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/collection/tcga-gbm/), which was ingested from TCIA. The images in that collections could potentially be used to reconstruct faces, and because of that it was pulled from public access by TCIA. You cannot download those images not because of any limitations of your profile, but because those files have been removed from the public buckets (this happened years ago).

You can check out the TCGA-GBM collection page referenced above for more details about access to that dataset.