Modules:Welcome-Documentation-3.4

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The "Welcome" Module

User greeting screen

Overview of Slicer layout and display

Configuring Slicer GUI layout and display

General Information

Background: this module is set as Slicer's default startup module unless a user checks the box (in the User greeting panel) to supress this behavior. If the option to show the welcome module at startup is de-selected, Slicer will display the user-specified Home module on startup. The Data Module is selected as Home unless a user explicitly chooses another module.

Module Type & Category

Type: Interactive

Category: Core Module

Authors, Collaborators & Contact

• Author1: Wendy Plesniak, BWH
• Ron Kikinis, BWH
• Steve Pieper, Isomics
• Sonia Pujol, BWH
• Contact: Wendy Plesniak, wjp@bwh.harvard.edu

Module Description

This module is intended as a welcome screen and will be set as default on all download versions of Slicer.

Detailed Description

This is a draft. The double stars entries in the table below pop up a floating window with more info.

Welcome to 3D Slicer 3.4. (logo)
Slicer3 is a free open source software platform for medical image processing and 3D visualization of image data.
This page contains some information and links to get you started. Please see our website, http://www.slicer.org for additional information.
3D Slicer is distributed under a BSD style license. See here for the full license.
The Software has been designed for research purposes only and has not been reviewed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration or by any other agency.

• Load Data
  • Volumes: Slicer3 can read most existing image acquisition formats such as dicom, jpeg or tiff, and image processing formats such as nrrd, analyze or nifti. Link to the panel Load of the module Volumes. For Dicom images, you may also use the command File/AddVolume from the main menu.
  • Models:3D reconstructions of anatomical structures. Link to the panel Load of the module Models.
  • Scenes: Combination of volumes and models. Use File/Load Scene from the main menu
  • Extensions: How to download extension modules
• Save Data
• Common Activities
  • Core Activities
    • Data Loading and Visualization: Link to the same named tutorial
    • Data Fusion: Link to the registration tutorial and to the registration subpanel
    • Data Segmentation: Link to the interactive editor module and to the matched tutorial
    • Scenesnapshots: Link to the two icons. Slicer allows to save all the parameters of the scene into a snap shot that can be recovered later.
  • To learn more: Link to the Slicer3 101 compendium and to the NA-MIC events page
  • Specialized Activities
    • Automated Brain Segmentation: Link to the EM tutorial and the segmentation subpanel
    • Diffusion MRI processing: Link to the tutorial and to the DWI/DTI subpanel
    • Tool Tracking and IGT research

• Community
  • Mailing Lists: Link to the user and developer mailing lists signup page
  • Events: Link to the NA-MIC events page
  • Feature requests and bug reports: Link to mantis bug tracker

Acknowledgment

NAC, NA-MIC, NCIGT, MBirn, Fbirn