Acknowledgments

Major Sponsors and Contributors

National Institutes of Health	National Center for Research Resources	National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering	National Cancer Institute	Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center of the US Army
Neuroimaging Analysis Center	National Alliance for Medical Image Computing	National Center for Image Guided Therapy	Biomedical Informatics Research Network	Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology
Surgical Planning Laboratory	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Johns Hopkins University CISST	Georgia Institute of Technology	Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center
The Martinos Center Massachusetts General Hospital	Kitware, Inc.	GE Global Research	Isomics, Inc.	Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory

Contribution	Developer(s)
Overall concept	Steve Pieper, Ron Kikinis, Jim Miller, Michael Halle, Bill Lorensen, Will Schroeder
Major designer and implementer	Steve Pieper
MRML, Viewer, and many other things	Alex Yarmarkovich
GUI	Wendy Plesniak, Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan
Command Line Modules	Jim Miller, Dan Blezek, Bill Lorensen, Luis Ibanez
Colors, Fiducials, FreeSurfer, QDEC	Nicole Aucoin
Testing, Release Engineering	Katie Hayes, Andy Cedilnik, Bill Hoffman
Diffusion Support	Raul San Jose Estepar, Lauren O'Donnell
BatchMake Integration	Stephen Aylward, Julien Jomier
Image Guided Therapy	Noby Hata, Sandy Wells, Haiying Liu
Volume Rendering	Andreas Freudling, Lisa Avila, Sebastien Barre

Contribution	Developer(s)
Overall concept	Ron Kikinis, Ferenc Jolesz, Eric Grimson, William Wells III, Michael Halle
Major designer and implementer	Dave Gering (1997-1999), Lauren O'Donnell (1999-), Steve Pieper (2001-)
Prototype	Noby Hata (1997), Ron Kikinis
OpenMR interface	Arya Nabavi (1998-1999), Ferenc Jolesz
Image Guided Therapy	Noby Hata, Sandy Wells, Haiying Liu
Measurement tools	William Lorensen (GE), Peter Everett (SPL), Krishna Yeshwant (SPL)
Robot simulation tools	Noby Hata, Oliver Schorr
3D connectivity algorithm	Andre Robatino
MI registration	William Wells III
Virtual endoscopy tool	Delphine Nain (MIT AI lab)
DICOM functionality, robot control, volume rendering	Attila Tanacs (Johns Hopkins University)
Cryotherapy planning	Torsten Butz (EPFL)
Architecture	Michael Halle (SPL)
EMSegmenter	Kilian Pohl (MIT AI lab)
Tetramesh, volumeMath, developer.tcl	Samson Timoner (MIT AI lab)
Print header	Mark Anderson (SPL)
Training and Download requests	Marianna Jakab (SPL)
Model Hierarchies	Arne Hans (SPL)
Application development	Steven Haker (SPL)
Craniofacial	Krishna Yeshwant (SPL)
FreeSurfer Volume Readers	Kevin Teich (MGH), Nicole Aucoin (BWH)
Nightly Builds, Testing, QA	Kathryn Hayes (BWH)
Training Materials	Sonia Pujol (BWH)
Feedback/Recommendations on Tool Development	Martha Shenton and Members of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory

Individual	Support
David Gering	GE Medical Systems
Lauren O'Donnell	National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Ron Kikinis	NIH grants P41 RR13218, P01 CA67165, and R01 RR11747; ERC 9731748
Ferenc Jolesz	NIH grants P41 RR13218 and P01 CA67165
William Wells III	Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Grant
W. Eric L. Grimson	NSF grant IIS-9610249, ERC 9731748
Attila Tanacs	ERC 9731748
Kevin Teich	NIH-NCRR grant 3 P41 RR14075-03S1

Slicer is built on an open source software infrastructure based on the NA-MIC Kit and consisting of the following elements:

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