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. Highlights: Multi-platform support: pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are available for download New ways to display and interact with cross-sectional data. Scenesnapshots allow capture of all visualization parameters of a scene Advanced registration / data fusion capabilities Many more features and improvements The new release contains hundreds of changes to the software and is based on recently released versions of vtk (5.2), itk (3.6), and cmake (2.6). Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority. Nevertheless, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested. Click here to download different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker.

Integrated Volume Rendering: The bone and large vessels 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