Documentation/Nightly/Acknowledgments

Citing Slicer

To acknowledge 3D Slicer as a platform, please cite the Slicer web site (http://www.slicer.org) and the following publication when publishing work that uses or incorporates 3D SlicerL:

Fedorov A., Beichel R., Kalpathy-Cramer J., Finet J., Fillion-Robin J-C., Pujol S., Bauer C., Jennings D., Fennessy F., Sonka M., Buatti J., Aylward S.R., Miller J.V., Pieper S., Kikinis R. 3D Slicer as an Image Computing Platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network. Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Nov;30(9):1323-41. PMID: 22770690.

Major Contributors

• Ron Kikinis: Principal Investigator
• Steve Pieper: Chief Architect
• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin: Lead Developer
• Nicole Aucoin
• Stephen Aylward
• Andrey Fedorov
• Noby Hata
• Hans Johnson
• Andras Lasso
• Jim Miller
• Sonia Pujol: Director of Training
• Junichi Tokuda
• Lauren O'Donnell

Groups

• SPL: Ron Kikinis, Nicole Aucoin, Wendy Plesniak, Demian Wassermann, Isaiah Norton, Sonia Pujol, Noby Hata, Junichi Tokuda
• Isomics: Steve Pieper, Alex Yarmarkovich
• Kitware: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Julien Finet, Will Schroeder, Stephen Aylward
• U Iowa: Hans Johnson
• GE: Jim Miller
• Perk Lab, Queen's University: Andras Lasso, Tamas Ungi, Csaba Pinter, Gabor Fichtinger

Funding Sources

Commercial partners

• Isomics uses 3D Slicer in a variety of academic and commercial research partnerships in fields such as planning and guidance for neurosurgery, quantitative imaging for clinical trials, clinical image informatics.

• Kitware Integral to continuing to support the 3D Slicer community, Kitware is also offering consulting services in response to the rapidly growing demand for the development of proprietary applications and commercial products based on 3D Slicer. Kitware has used 3D Slicer to rapidly prototype solutions in nearly every aspect of medical imaging and is also collaborating on the development of commercial pre-clinical and clinical products based on 3D Slicer.

Listed in alphabetical order.

Commercial Products Involving Slicer

• SonoVol is developing a whole-body ultrasound imaging system for small animals. This start-up company arose from research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Xstrahl is developing a Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) that uses 3D Slicer as its front-end application for radiation therapy beam placement and system control.

Listed in alphabetical order.

Grants

SlicerCMF:

• QUANTIFICATION OF 3D BONY CHANGES IN TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT OSTEOARTHRITIS, 1R01DE024450 (PI: CEVIDANES, LUCIA, University of Michigan), 09/2013-08/2017

Slicer-Craniosynostosis:

• PLANNING SYSTEM FOR SKULL CORRECTION IN CHILDREN WITH CRANIOSYNOSTOS , R41HD081712 (PI: LINGURARU, MARIUS GEORGE, Kitware), 9/2014-8/2016

Slicer-Duke Prostate Registration:

• PROSTATE CANCER ASSESSMENT VIA INTEGRATED 3D ARFI ELASTICITY IMAGING AND MULTI-PARAMETRIC MRI, R41CA196565 (PI: PALMERI, MARK L., Kitware), 4/2015 - 3/2016

Slicer-DiffusionMRI:

• OPEN SOURCE DIFFUSION MRI TECHNOLOGY FOR BRAIN CANCER RESEARCH, 1U01CA199459 (PI: O'DONNELL, LAUREN JEAN, BWH), 9/2015 - 7/2018

• IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CENTER, 2P41EB015898 (PI: TEMPANY, CLARE M., BWH), 4/2004 - 6/2020

• NEUROIMAGING ANALYSIS CENTER (NAC), P41EB015902 (PI: KIKINIS, RON, BWH), 8/2013 - 5/2018

Slicer-DWI:

• ADVANCEMENT AND VALIDATION OF PROSTATE DIFFUSION AND SPECTROSCOPIC MRI, R01CA160902 (PI: MAIER, STEPHAN E., BWH),4/2012 - 2/2018

Slicer-NCIGT

• IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CENTER, P41EB015898 (PI: TEMPANY, CLARE M., BWH), 4/2004 - 6/2020

Slicer-NIRView (Dartmouth):

• MRI FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR QUANTIFYING TUMOR RECEPTOR CONCENTRATION IN VIVO, R01CA184354 (PI: DAVIS, SCOTT C., Dartmouth), 4/2014 - 2/2019

Slicer-OrthognathicTrac:

• REAL-TIME IMAGE GUIDANCE FOR IMPROVED ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY, R43DE024334 (PI: ENQUOBAHRIE, ANDINET ASMAMAW, Kitware), 8/2014 - 7/2016

Slicer-PediatricRadiologicDecisionSupport

• MI2B2 ENABLED PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGICAL DECISION SUPPORT, 1R01EB014947 (PI: MURPHY, SHAWN N., MGH), 8/2012 - 7/2016

Slicer-PET/CT Calibration Phantom:

• CALIBRATED METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE PET/CT IMAGING PHASE II, R42CA167907 (PI: KINAHAN, PAUL E., Kitware), 5/2012 - 7/2017

Slicer-PET-CT guided needle biopsy:

• IMPROVING LIVER LESION BIOPSY IN THE CT SUITE THROUGH FUSION WITH PET IMAGES, 2R42CA153488 (PI: CLEARY, KEVIN R., Kitware), 9/2012 - 8/2014

• MPROVING LIVER LESION BIOPSY IN THE CT SUITE THROUGH FUSION WITH PET IMAGES, R41CA153488 (PI: CLEARY, KEVIN R., Kitware), 7/2010 - 6/2012

• IMPROVING LIVER LESION BIOPSY IN THE CT SUITE THROUGH FUSION WITH PET IMAGES, 3R42CA153488 (PI: CLEARY, KEVIN R., Kitware), 9/2012 - 8/2016

Slicer-ProstateBRP

• ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR MRI-GUIDED PROSTATE INTERVENTIONS, 5R01CA111288 (PI: TEMPANY, CLARE M., BWH), 12/2004 - 7/2016

Slicer-ProstateQIN

• QUANTITATIVE MRI OF PROSTATE CANCER AS A BIOMARKER AND GUIDE FOR TREATMENT, 5U01CA151261 (PI: FENNESSY, FIONA, BWH), 9/2010 - 7/2016

Slicer-QIICR:

• QUANTITATIVE IMAGE INFORMATICS FOR CANCER RESEARCH (QIICR), 5U24CA180918 (PI: KIKINIS, RON, BWH), 9/2013 - 8/2018

Slicer-Radiomics-U01:

• GENOTYPE AND IMAGING PHENOTYPE BIOMARKERS IN LUNG CANCER, 1U01CA190234 (PI: AERTS, HUGO), 1/2015 - 12/2019

Slicer-TubeTK:

• IN-FIELD FAST PROCEDURE SUPPORT AND AUTOMATION, 1R43EB016621 (PI: AYLWARD, STEPHEN R., Kitware), 5/2013 - 4/2015

• MULTIMODALITY IMAGE-BASED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, 1R41NS081792 (PI: AYLWARD, STEPHEN R., Kitware), 1/2013 - 12/2014

• MICRO-TUMOR DETECTION BY QUANTIFYING TUMOR-INDUCED VASCULAR ABNORMALITIES (PQ-13), 1R01CA170665 (PI: DAYTON, PAUL A., UNC), 9/2012 - 6/2016

• QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS OF VASCULAR MORPHOLOGY FOR CANCER ASSESSMENT, 1R43CA165621 (PI: AYLWARD, STEPHEN R., Kitware), 12/2012 - 8/2014

Demo suggestion

spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f9Ik0uiO3dPkdnxsUc5Kq_ijV1Qi_gkmFV2uw7h9tq4/edit?usp=sharing

wiki table (scroll to the bottom): http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/Nightly/Acknowledgments#Demo_suggestion

The table can be automatically generated later from modules metadata later, hopefully (at least, that should be doable)

This converter can be used to go from .tsv exported google doc into wiki format:

http://area23.brightbyte.de/csv2wp.php

Grant number and link	Grant title and web page	Grant PIs	Institutions involved	People involved	Slicer modules/extensions/functionality contributed
U24 CA180918	Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR)	Kikinis, Fedorov	BWH, Iowa, MGH, OpenConnections, Isomics, Stony Brook	Kikinis, Fedorov, Pieper, Beichel, Kalpathy-Cramer, Herz, Aucoin	TCIABrowser, Reporting, DWModeling, SlicerProstate