Announcements:Slicer3.2

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. Release candidates can be found on the Slicer download pages under nightly builds (see here).
• The new release is based on recently released versions of vtk, itk, and cmake.
• The entire build infrastructure of Slicer was modified to enable the use of new features in those packages.
• Major features have been added in comparison to the 3.0 release from January 2008. The features include:

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  Volume rendering

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  Diffusion Imaging infrastructure
  dicom import
  gradient editor
  visualiztion

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  Interactive Editor

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  Remote Data Handling

• • Affine and b-Spline registration
  • Loadable Modules
  • OpenIGTLink for interfacing to devices such as trackers and robots