Documentation/Nightly/ElevatorStory

What is it ?

An elevator story is a summary you can provide to someone you
meet in an elevator, traveling a few floors. The same holds for an
e-mail you can present in a few lines (~10).

See http://slicer-devel.65872.n3.nabble.com/Slicer-Elevator-Story-tt4026759.html

Email template

Please cut and paste the following into an e-mail if you think Slicer can solve a user's problem.

3D Slicer is:

• A software platform for the analysis and visualization of medical images and for research in image guided therapy.
• A free, open source software available on multiple operating systems (Windows, MAC, Linux).
• Extensible, with powerful plug-in capabilities for adding algorithms and applications.

Features include:

• Available for windows, linux and Mac OS X
• Support for many modalities, including, MRI, CT, US, nuclear medicine, and microscopy
• Robust support for DICOM
• Flexible display capabilities with a variety of predefined layouts for slice reformats and 3d views
• Annotations
• Accelerated volume rendering
• Powerful data fusion and registration capabilities
• Automated and interactive segmentation tools
• Surface reconstruction from image data (Marching Cubes, Isosurface modelling)
• Bidirectional interface for devices (OpenIGTLink)
• Plugin architecture for IO formats and algorithms
• Extensible & scriptable development platform (C++/Python)

Please visit http://www.slicer.org/pages/Introduction for a more complete description

There is no restriction on use, but permissions and compliance with rules are responsibility of users. See http://www.slicer.org/pages/LicenseText.

See http://download.slicer.org/ to download Slicer4 for your platform.