3D Slicer
3D Slicer
3D Slicer is a software tool that allows the loading and manipulation of DICOM images, and is designed for image analysis and scientific visualization. This license has no restrictions on use in commercial or academic projects. It is a translational research platform, not for clinical use, although it can be used in experimental procedures with the approval of the ethics committee and the patient involved. It is the responsibility of the user to operate in accordance with local regulations and legislation. 3D Slicer has not been formally approved for clinical use by the FDA in the United States or any other regulatory body in other countries.
It is a free software open source licence ([BSD]), it allows the registering of images, processing of diffusion tractographies, to serve as interface for external devices for guided by image and rendering of volumes by GPU, among other things.
It has a modular organization, which allows adding new functionalities adapted to the specific needs of each user.
It is in constant development by different international teams, based in universities and research centers (both public and private) in North America, Europe and Asia.
Functionalities
It allows the integration of multimodal images, including all those mentioned above as medical images. Interactive visualization possibilities include building slice images in arbitrary planes, building surface models from image labels, and hardware-accelerated volume modeling. It also supports a wide range of registration skills such as trustee, measurement utilities, custom color maps...
Capacities
- Manage DICOM images and read/write other formats
- Interactive visualization of volumetric images of voxels, polygonal meshes and volume rendering
- Manual editing
- Merging and co-registration of information using rigid and non-rigid algorithms
- Automatic image segmentation
- Image analysis and display by diffusion tensors
- Device tracking in image-guided procedures
Requirements
Hardware
The recommended hardware configuration is:
- Display: a minimum resolution of 1024x768 (1280x1024 recommended)
- 4GB of memory (8GB recommended)
- Dedicated graphics card (recommended 1GB)
- Multi CPU
- Mouse or equivalent pointing device with two buttons and scroll wheel
- Internet connection to access online documentation and tutorials
Operating system
Versions recommended:
- Windows 7 64-bit
- Mac OS X Lion
- Linux: current versions of the most popular distributions should not present a problem (Ubuntu and Fedora, for example)
