Announcements:Slicer3.2

Slicer 3.2

• Preparations are underway for a major new release of Slicer 3, called Slicer 3.2. The release is scheduled for Thursday, May 29, 2008.

The new release is based on recently released versions of vtk (5.2), itk (3.6), and cmake (2.6). The entire build infrastructure of Slicer was modified to enable the use of new features available in the underlying packages. Major features have been added in comparison to the Slicer 3.0 release from January 2008. See below for highlights. However, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested. Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Click here to download Slicer3

Integrated Volume Rendering: Bone and aorta are volume rendered. The other structures are surface rendered and combined with cross-sections.

New and improved features

• Highlights
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  Fully integrated volume rendering with cropping

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  Implicit Slice Widget for specifying oblique views (part of the VTK widget family).

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  The Lightbox: Tools for viewing cross-sections

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  Interactive Editor allows interactive segmentation with powerful 2D and 3D algorithms

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  IO capabilities include DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer and FITS

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  Glyphs on tracts:
  New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure includes
  dicom import
  gradient editor
  visualiztion

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  Remote Data Handling allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT

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  OpenIGTLink interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots

• Affine and b-Spline registration
• Loadable Modules
• EM segementer
• Scenesnapshots