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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">The Basics</span>
 
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Latest revision as of 14:20, 11 August 2016

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3D Slicer

  • Analysis and visualization of medical images
  • Image guided therapy research, device interfaces.
  • Extensible, free, open source. See here for the license

  • Designed for biomedical research
  • Multi organ capability: from head to toe.
  • Multi-modality imaging: MRI, CT, US, nuclear medicine, and microscopy.

Where to start ?

The Basics

Advanced Topics


Core Functions

To add data, just drag and drop To save data, select the save icon
Interactive segmentation Interactive Segmentation (at 14 minutes)
Interactive registration Demo of the transforms display feature
Registration library Volume rendering
Fiducials Linear Measurements

Miscellaneous


Documentation in other languages

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