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I can't find it presently but I read some blog post about a guy getting his MRI data. It's apparently possible but like most things in life, a pain.

If they are paying for it out of pocket, I assume they would have the option for the raw data. Maybe a small-ish processing fee, because...American healthcare.

Prenuvo give you a link to all the .dcm files downloadable in a zip.

Where I am, they just handed me a CD with the DICOM files inside

Loads up fine on Linux. You can move around in 2D slices, or in a reconstructed 3D (albeit the resolutions of the MRI I had wasn't all that great)

As I understand it in the US you legally have access to the data as it's part of your medical records.

In my experience it's as simple as asking, they give you a CD-R containing some DICOM files and a freeware DICOM viewer. Maybe more modern health systems will let you just download the files.