Documentation/Nightly/Acknowledgments

Citing Slicer

To acknowledge 3D Slicer as a platform, please cite the Slicer web site (http://www.slicer.org) and the following publication when publishing work that uses or incorporates 3D Slicer.

Plaintext

Fedorov A., Beichel R., Kalpathy-Cramer J., Finet J., Fillion-Robin J-C., Pujol S., Bauer C., Jennings D., Fennessy F., Sonka M., Buatti J., Aylward S.R., Miller J.V., Pieper S., Kikinis R. 3D Slicer as an Image Computing Platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network. Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Nov;30(9):1323-41. PMID: 22770690.

BibTex

@article{fedorov20123d,
  title={3D Slicer as an image computing platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network},
  author={Fedorov, Andriy and Beichel, Reinhard and Kalpathy-Cramer, Jayashree and Finet, Julien and Fillion-Robin, Jean-Christophe and Pujol, Sonia and Bauer, Christian and Jennings, Dominique and Fennessy, Fiona and Sonka, Milan and others},
  journal={Magnetic resonance imaging},
  volume={30},
  number={9},
  pages={1323--1341},
  year={2012},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

Note also that many of the modules are based on individual algorithms. The module documentation page typically provides a reference.

Funding Sources

Commercial partners

• Isomics uses 3D Slicer in a variety of academic and commercial research partnerships in fields such as planning and guidance for neurosurgery, quantitative imaging for clinical trials, clinical image informatics.

• Kitware Integral to continuing to support the 3D Slicer community, Kitware is also offering consulting services in response to the rapidly growing demand for the development of proprietary applications and commercial products based on 3D Slicer. Kitware has used 3D Slicer to rapidly prototype solutions in nearly every aspect of medical imaging and is also collaborating on the development of commercial pre-clinical and clinical products based on 3D Slicer.

Listed in alphabetical order.

Commercial Products Involving Slicer

• SonoVol is developing a whole-body ultrasound imaging system for small animals. This start-up company arose from research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Xstrahl is developing a Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) that uses 3D Slicer as its front-end application for radiation therapy beam placement and system control.

Listed in alphabetical order.

Grants

SlicerCMF

   Date: 09/10/2013-08/31/2017
   1R01DE024450 (PI Lucia Cevidanes, University of Michigan)
   QUANTIFICATION OF 3D BONY CHANGES IN TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT OSTEOARTHRITIS

https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8576556&icde=18353487

Slicer-Craniosynostosis: NIH/NICHD R41HD081712

Slicer-Duke Prostate Registration: NIH/NCI R41CA196565

Slicer-DiffusionMRI

   Dates: 2015-09-22    2016-07-31
   U01CA199459 (PI Lauren Jean O’Donnell, BWH)
   Open Source Diffusion MRI Technology For Brain Cancer Research

https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8971083&icde=27026834

   (also NCIGT and NAC, below, for diffusion)

   Date: 15-AUG-2015 to 30-JUN-2020 

P41EB015898 (PI Clare Tempany, BWH) Image Guided Therapy Center https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=8855115&icde=27026518

Date: 08/01/2013-05/31/2018 P41EB015902 (PI Ron Kikinis, BWH) NEUROIMAGING ANALYSIS CENTER https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8971083&icde=27026834

Slicer-DWI Dates: 1-APR-2012 to 28-FEB-2018 R01CA160902 ADVANCEMENT AND VALIDATION OF PROSTATE DIFFUSION AND SPECTROSCOPIC MRI

   https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8817256&icde=27026677 

Slicer-NCIGT

   Date: 15-AUG-2015 to 30-JUN-2020 

P41EB015898 (PI Clare Tempany, BWH) Image Guided Therapy Center https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=8855115&icde=27026518

Slicer-NIRView (Dartmouth): NIH/NCI R01 CA184354

Slicer-OrthognathicTrac: NIH/NIDCR R43DE024334

Slicer-PediatricRadiologicDecisionSupport

   Date: 8/1/2012 - 7/31/2016
   1R01EB014947 (PI Shawn Murphy, MGH)
   MI2B2 ENABLED PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGICAL DECISION SUPPORT

https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8272742&icde=13552329

Slicer-PET/CT Calibration Phantom: NIH/NCI R42CA167907

Slicer-PET-CT guided needle biopsy: NCI/NIH grants 2R42CA153488-02A1, R41CA153488-01 and 3R42CA153488-03S1.

Slicer-ProstateBRP Date: 1-AUG-2011 to 31-JUL-2016 R01CA111288 ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR MRI-GUIDED PROSTATE INTERVENTIONS https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8906771&icde=27026518

Slicer-ProstateQIN Dates: 22-SEP-2010 to 31-JUL-2016 U01CA151261 QUANTITATIVE MRI OF PROSTATE CANCER AS A BIOMARKER AND GUIDE FOR TREATMENT

   https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8707214&icde=27026645

Slicer-QIICR: Dates: 4-SEP-2013 to 31-AUG-2018 U24 CA180918 (PI: Kikinis and Fedorov) Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR) https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8911287&icde=27026906

Slicer-Radiomics-U01: Date: 2015-01-09 to 2019-12-31 U01CA190234 (PI: Hugo Aerts, PhD (DFCI)) Genotype and Imaging Phenotype Biomarkers in Lung Cancer https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8799943&icde=27026470

Slicer-TubeTK:

    NIH/NIBIB: "In-field FAST procedure support and automation" (Aylward) 1R43EB016621

NIH/NINDS: "Multimodality image-based assessment system for traumatic brain injury" (PI: Aylward) 1R41NS081792

NIH/NCI: "Micro-tumor detection by quantifying tumor-induced vascular abnormalities" (PI: Dayton - UNC) 1R01CA170665

NIH/NCI: "Quantitative ultrasound analysis of vascular morphology for cancer assessment" (PI: Aylward and Dayton - UNC) 1R43CA165621