3D Slicer

3D Slicer

3D Slicer is a software tool that allows the loading and manipulation of DICOM images; it 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 council and the patient involved. It is the user's responsibility to operate in accordance with local regulations and legislation. 3D Slicer has not been formally approved for clinical use by the FDA in the US or any other regulatory agency in other countries.

Characteristics

It is a free open source software license [BSD]), allows image registration, broadcast tractography processing, interface to external devices for image-guided imaging and GPU rendering of volumes, 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 multi-modal images, including all those previously mentioned as medical images; the interactive visualization possibilities include the construction of images by cuts in arbitrary planes, constructing surface models from image tags, and hardware-accelerated volume modeling. It also supports a wide range of logging skills such as fiducial, measurement utilities, custom color maps ...

Capacities

• Gestionar imágenes DICOM y lectura/escritura de otros formatos
• Visualización interactiva de imágenes volumétricas de vóxeles, mallas poligonales y renderizado de volúmenes
• Edición manual
• Fusión y co-registrado de información utilizando algorimos rígidos y no rígidos
• Segmentación automática de imágenes
• Análisis y visualización de imágenes por tensores de difusión
• Seguimiento de dispositivos en procedimientos guiados por imagen

Requerimientos

Hardware

La configuración recomendada de hardware es:

• Pantalla: una resolución mínima de 1024x768 (se recomienda 1280x1024)
• 4GB de memoria (se recomiendan 8GB)
• Tarjeta gráfica dedicada (recomendada de 1GB)
• Multi CPU
• Ratón o dispositivo señalador equivalente con dos botones y rueda de scroll
• Conexión Internet para acceder a la documentación online y tutoriales

Sistema operativo

Versiones recomendadas:

• Windows 7 64bits
• Mac OS X Lion
• Linux: las versiones actuales de las distribuciones más populares no deberían presentar problema (Ubuntu y Fedora, por ejemplo)