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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
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
Fully integrated volume rendering with cropping
Implicit Slice Widget for specifying oblique views (part of the VTK widget family).
The Lightbox: Tools for viewing cross-sections
Interactive Editor allows interactive segmentation with powerful 2D and 3D algorithms
IO capabilities include DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer and FITS
Glyphs on tracts:
New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure includes
dicom import
gradient editor
visualiztion
Remote Data Handling allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT
OpenIGTLink interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots