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=Introduction= 

The [[Announcments-3.6-Team|community]] of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of '''Slicer 3.6'''.

*Click here to [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. *Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.
*The [[Training|Slicer Training page]] provides a series of courses for learning how to use Slicer3. The portfolio contains self-guided presentation and sample data sets 

The main [http://www.slicer.org slicer.org] pages provide a guided tour to the application, training materials, and the development community.  New users should start there because we try to keep the pages organized and up to date.

=Highlights=
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.6 - New and Improved Modules" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Slicer3.6-Editor-2010-05-06.png|The [[Modules:Editor-Documentation-3.6|Interactive Editor]] can be used to create and edit label maps for quantitative analysis and surface model generation (Steve Pieper)
Image:VolumeRenderingICPE.png| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation-3.6|Volume Rendering]] (Yanling Liu, Julien Finet, Lisa Avila)
Image:Slicer-ColorGUI-3.6.jpg| [[Modules:Colors-Documentation-3.6|Colors]] (Nicole Aucoin)
Image:Slicer3.6MeasurementsRulersModel.jpg| [[Modules:Measurements-Documentation-3.6 |Measurements (rulers and angles)]] (Nicole Aucoin)
Image:SlicerFiducialsGlyphs-3.4.jpg| [[Modules:Fiducials-Documentation-3.6|Fiducials]] (Nicole Aucoin)
Image:EMSegment-Simple.png|[[Modules:EMSegment-Simple3.6|EM Segmenter, simple version]] (Kilian Pohl)
Image:Fastmarching-result-adjusted.jpg| [[Modules:FastMarchingSegmentation-Documentation-3.6|Fast Marching segmentation]] (Andriy Fedorov)
Image:RSSkidneyL.png| [[Modules:RobustStatisticsSeg-Documentation-3.6|Robust Statistical Segmentation]] (Yi Gao)
Image:Fiducial registration before.jpg|NEW: [[Modules:RegisterImagesMultiRes-Documentation-3.6|Multiresolution Affine registration]] (Casey Goodlett)
Image:B-spline-reg-detail.png|Improved: [[Modules:RegisterImages-Documentation-3.6|Expert Automated Registration]] (Casey Goodlett)
Image:Fiducial_registration_before.jpg|NEW: [[Modules:TransformFromFiducials-Documentation-3.6|Fiducial Registration]] (Casey Goodlett)
Image:Registration_BRAINSfit.png|NEW: [[Modules:BRAINSFit |BRAINSFit Registration]] (Hans Johnson)
Image:Registration_BRAINSdemonwarp.png|NEW: [[Modules:BRAINSDemonWarp|BRAINSDemonWarp]] (Hans Johnson)
Image:Plastimatch_icon.png|NEW: [[Modules:Plastimatch |Plastimatch non-rigid registration]] (Greg Sharp)
Image:PETCTFusion.png| [[Modules:PETCTFusion-Documentation-3.6 |PETCTFusion]] (Wendy Plesniak)
Image:| [[Modules:CollectFiducials-Documentation-3.6 |Collect Patient Fiducials]] (Andrew Wiles)
Image:| [[Modules:IGTToolSelector-Documentation-3.6 |IGT Tool Selector]] (Andrew Wiles)
Image:FourDImage Screenshot1.png| [[Modules:FourDImage-Documentation-3.6|4D Image Viewer]] (Junichi Tokuda)
Image:MRI_Bias_Field_Correction_Slicer3_close_up.png|[[Modules:MRIBiasFieldCorrection-Documentation-3.6|MRIBiasFieldCorrection]] correction of MRI intensity inhomogeneity i.e. bias field (Sylvain Jaume)
Image:N4 prostate bias ax.png| [[Modules:N4ITKBiasFieldCorrection-Documentation-3.6|N4 Bias Field Correction]] (Andriy Fedorov)
Image:Surface H c.png| [[Modules:MeshContourSegmentation-Documentation-3.6|Mesh Contour Segmentation]] (Peter Karasev)
Image:ModelTransform.PNG| [[Modules:ModelTransform-Documentation-3.6|Model Transform]] (Alex Yarmarkovich)
Image:BrainWebImageTransformed.jpg| [[Modules:ResampleScalarVectorDWIVolume-Documentation-3.6|Resample Scalar/Vector/DWI Volume]] (Francois Budin)
Image:ExtractSubvolume3.png| [[Modules:CropVolume-Documentation-3.6|Crop Volume]] (Andriy Fedorov)
Image:Endoscopy-slicer3.6.png| [[Modules:Endoscopy-Documentation-3.6|Virtual Endoscopy]] (Steve Pieper)
Image:ChangeTracker_Analysis-3.4.png| [[Modules:ChangeTracker-Documentation-3.6|ChangeTracker]] (Andriy Fedorov)
Image:BRAINSFit.png| [[Modules:BRAINSFit|BRAINSFit]] (Hans J. Johnson)
Image:BRAINSDemonWarp.png| [[Modules:BRAINSDemonWarp|BRAINSDemonWarp]] (Hans J. Johnson)
Image:BRAINSResample.png| [[Modules:BRAINSResample|BRAINSResample]] (Hans J. Johnson)
Image:BRAINSROIAuto.png| [[Modules:BRAINSROIAuto|BRAINSROIAuto]] (Hans J. Johnson)
Image:Slicer3_OpenIGTLinkIF__VolumeReslice2.png| [[Modules:OpenIGTLinkIF-Documentation-3.6|OpenIGTLinkIF]] (Junichi Tokuda)
Image:Slicer3_ProstateNav_TargetSelection.png| [[Modules:ProstateNav-Documentation-3.6|ProstateNav]] (Andras Lasso, Junichi Tokuda)
Image:slicer3.6_neuronav_OR.jpeg| [[Modules:NeuroNav-Documentation-3.6|NeuroNav]] (Haiying Liu)

</gallery>

=Slicer Extensions=
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.6 - Extensions" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Plastimatch_dicomrt_dose.png|The [[Modules:PlastimatchDICOMRT| Plastimatch DICOM RT reader]] allows import and conversion of data in that format. (Greg Sharp)
Image:ABC out3d.png|The [[Modules:ABC-Documentation-3.5|ABC Segmenter]] is based on ITK EM technology.
Image:FCMResultLabels-3-6.png|[[Modules:FuzzySegmentationModule|Fuzzy segmentation]]
Image:HammerAverage-3-6.png|[[Modules:HammerRegistration|Hammer Registration]] can be used to build statistical brain atlases
Image:Plastimatch image 2.png|[[Modules:Plastimatch|Plastimatch non-rigid registration]] (Greg Sharp)
Image:Corticalthickness.png|[[Modules:ARCTIC-Documentation-3.6|Arctic wizard]] (Automatic Regional Cortical ThICkness)
Image:LesionsWithVentricles.png|[[Modules:LesionSegmentationApplications-Documentation-3.6| Lupus white matter lesions segmentation]] (Jeremy Bockholt, Mark Scully)
Image:Shot2.png|[[Modules:EMDTIClustering-Documentation-3.6|EM DTI clustering]] (Mahnaz Maddah)
Image:RicianTensorCorrectionImage.png|[[Modules:RicianNoiseFilter|Rician Noise Filter]] for noise removal in DWI data
Image:FourDAnalysisModuleScreenShot-3.5.png|The [[Modules:FourDAnalysis-Documentation-3.6|FourD Analysis module]] was designed for time series analysis (Junichi Takuda)
Image:Avf 3d voronoi big.png|[[Modules:VMTKCenterlines|Centerline extraction using Voronoi diagrams]] (Luca Antiga, Daniel Haehn) 
Image:Labeldiameterestimation1.png|[[Modules:LabelDiameterEstimation-Documentation-3.6|Label diameter estimation]] (Andriy Fedorov) 
</gallery>

 Checklist for the [[Checklist-3.6-Release|3.6 release]]

= Other Improvements,  Additions & Documentation =
[[Image:RegPortal_Icon.png|100px|Registration Portal|link=Slicer3:Registration]] [[Slicer3:Registration|Registration Portal Page: overview of avail. tools & modules]] (Dominik Meier) <br><br>
[[Image:Registration DecisionMatrix.png| 100px | link=Registration:Categories]] [[Registration:Categories|Registration Tool Feature Matrix]] (Dominik Meier)<br><br>
[[Image:Resampling_DecisionMatrix.png| 100px | link=Registration:Resampling]] [[Registration:Resampling|Resampling Tool Feature Matrix]] (Dominik Meier)<br><br>
[[Image:RegLib_Banner.png| 100px |link=http://na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:RegistrationDocumentation:UseCaseInventory]] [http://na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:RegistrationDocumentation:UseCaseInventory| Slicer Registration Case Library] (Dominik Meier)<br><br>
[[Image:SlicerRegistrationLibrary_Ad.png| 100px | link=http://na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:RegistrationDocumentation:UseCaseAdvertisement]] [http://na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:RegistrationDocumentation:UseCaseAdvertisement|Slicer Registration Case Library: Call for Example Datasets] (Dominik Meier)<br><br>