Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/PorousScaffoldsExtension

For the latest Slicer documentation, visit the read-the-docs.

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Extension: Porous Scaffolds Acknowledgements: This project is partially supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.51005156 and 81171429). Get this extension: Code Resource Author: Fenghe Tang, Xiaojun Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Contact1: Xiaojun Chen, <email>xiaojunchen@163.com</email> Contact2: Fenghe Tang, <email>miketfh@sjtu.edu.cn</email> Shanghai Jiao Tong University Module Description Porous Scaffolds is a Slicer Loadable module to generate pourous scaffold model based on the shape of a chosen model(.stl format). Use Cases Screen shot Error creating thumbnail: File missing original model scaffold of cube-shaped pores Error creating thumbnail: File missing scaffold of tetrahedron-shaped pores Tutorials Panels: Error creating thumbnail: File missing Module UI 1. MRMLViewTree: To hide/display/delete/rename a model node. 2. "Select a Model" combo box: Select a model to generate a porous scaffold. 3. "Select pores shape" combo box: Select the shape of pores. "Cube" and "Tetrahedron" are available. 4. "Pores size" slider: Drag to adjust the pore size. 5. "OK" button: Start generating the porous scaffold model. It will create a NEW model instead of modifying the original one. 6. "Cancel" button: Cancel your operation. 7. Processing bar. Before you use this module, please copy the folder "pores" in this module source to your Slicer.exe root path. If you try to use a model too complcated or too large in this module, it may cause crash of Slicer. It is an existing problem. References N/A Information for Developers For technical questions or problems, please use contacts in the introduction.