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== History ==

Slicer is an Open Source development project begun at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Slicer is now in active research use at institutions around the world with contributing developers sponsored by a variety of governmental, commercial, and institutional funding sources.

MIT held the initial copyright to the source code (for Slicer 1.x and Slicer 2.0-2.3, 1999-2004), and has transferred copyright to BWH as of Slicer version 2.4, in 2005. BWH continues to administer the copyright, but as of the slicer license adopted for Slicer 2.6 and beyond, contributors explicitly retain ownership of their contributions (by making contributions to the slicer repository they are giving permission for BWH to distribute their code under the terms of the slicer license). The text of the copyright can be found [http://slicer.org/copyright/copyright.txt here].

The SPL coordinates the ongoing development and hosts a wide range of clinical and development efforts using Slicer.

== Funding Agencies and Major Projects ==

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[http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ National Insitute of Health]
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[http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/ National Center for Research Resources]
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[http://www.nibib.nih.gov/ National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering]
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[http://www.cancer.gov/ National Cancer Institute]
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[http://nac.spl.harvard.edu/ Neuroimaging Analysis Center] P41 RR13218 (Kikinis)
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[http://www.na-mic.org/ National Alliance for Medical Image Computing] U54 EB005149 (Kikinis)
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[http://www.ncigt.org National Center for Image Guided Therapy] U54 RR019703 (Jolesz)
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[http://www.nbirn.net Biomedical Informatics Research Network] U24 RR021382 (Rosen) and U24 RR021992 (Potkin)
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[http://www.defenselink.mil/ United States Department of Defense]
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[http://www.cimit.org Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology]
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== Contributors ==

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[http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000 Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Surgical Planning Lab]
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[http://www.csail.mit.edu/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
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[http://cisstweb.cs.jhu.edu Johns Hopkins University CISST]
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[http://www.gatech.edu/ Georgia Institute of Technology]
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[http://www.hcnr.med.harvard.edu The Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair]
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[http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital]
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[http://www.kitware.com Kitware, Inc.]
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[http://www.ge.com/research General Electric Global Research]
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[http://www.isomics.com Isomics, Inc.]
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The main individual contributors to this joint effort are listed below. If you have made a sigificant contribution to slicer development since this table was last updated, please make a further contribution by adding youself to this list :)

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! class="box" | Contributors
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| class="box0" | Overall concept
| class="box0" | Ron Kikinis, Ferenc Jolesz, Eric Grimson, William Wells III
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| class="box1" | Major designer and implementer
| class="box1" | Dave Gering (1997-1999), Lauren O'Donnell (1999-), Steve Pieper (2001-)
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| class="box0" | Prototype
| class="box0" | Noby Hata (1997), Ron Kikinis
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| class="box1" | OpenMR interface
| class="box1" | Arya Nabavi (1998-1999), Ferenc Jolesz
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| class="box0" | Measurement tools
| class="box0" | William Lorensen (GE), Peter Everett (SPL), Krishna Yeshwant (SPL)
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| class="box1" | Robot simulation tools
| class="box1" | Noby Hata, Oliver Schorr
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| class="box0" | 3D connectivity algorithm
| class="box0" | Andre Robatino
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| class="box1" | MI registration
| class="box1" | William Wells III
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| class="box0" | Virtual endoscopy tool
| class="box0" | Delphine Nain (MIT AI lab)
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| class="box1" | DICOM functionality, robot control, volume rendering
| class="box1" | Attila Tanacs (Johns Hopkins University)
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| class="box0" | Cryotherapy planning
| class="box0" | Torsten Butz (EPFL)
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| class="box1" | Architecture
| class="box1" | Michael Halle (SPL)
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| class="box0" | EMSegmenter
| class="box0" | Kilian Pohl (MIT AI lab)
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| class="box1" | Tetramesh, volumeMath, developer.tcl
| class="box1" | Samson Timoner (MIT AI lab)
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| class="box0" | Print header
| class="box0" | Mark Anderson (SPL)
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| class="box1" | Training and Download requests
| class="box1" | Marianna Jakab (SPL)
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| class="box0" | Model Hierarchies
| class="box0" | Arne Hans (SPL)
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| class="box1" | Application development
| class="box1" | Steven Haker (SPL)
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| class="box0" | Craniofacial
| class="box0" | Krishna Yeshwant (SPL)
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| class="box1" | FreeSurfer Volume Readers
| class="box1" | Kevin Teich (MGH), Nicole Aucoin (BWH)
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| class="box1" | Nightly Builds, Testing, QA
| class="box1" | Kathryn Hayes (BWH)
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| class="box1" | Training Materials
| class="box1" | Sonia Pujol (BWH)
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We are sincerely thankful for the grants and fellowships supporting this project, and we wish to acknowledge them here.

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! class="box" | Supporter
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| class="box0" | David Gering
| class="box0" | GE Medical Systems
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| class="box0" | Lauren O'Donnell
| class="box0" | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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| class="box1" | Ron Kikinis
| class="box1" | NIH grants P41 RR13218, P01 CA67165, and R01 RR11747; ERC 9731748
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| class="box1" | Ferenc Jolesz
| class="box1" | NIH grants P41 RR13218 and P01 CA67165 
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| class="box0" | William Wells III
| class="box0" | Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Grant
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| class="box1" | W. Eric L. Grimson
| class="box1" | NSF grant IIS-9610249, ERC 9731748
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| class="box0" | Attila Tanacs
| class="box0" | ERC 9731748
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| class="box1" | Kevin Teich
| class="box1" | NIH-NCRR grant 3 P41 RR14075-03S1
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