Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation

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  Figure A. Schematic of the main application GUI

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  Figure B. Schematic of a Slice Viewer and Slice Controller

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  Figure C. Schematic of the Controller for all Slice Viewers

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  Figure D. Schematic of the Controller for the 3D Viewer

Anatomy of Main Application GUI (page under development)

Application menu

The Application menu bar is at the very top of Slicer3's main window, as noted in Figure A. Its menus and functionality are briefly listed below.

File menu

File->Load Scene: Loads an existing scene

File->Import Scene Adds a scene to the one present in Slicer

File->Add Data

File->Add Volume

File->Save

• To save the scene (mrml file) you have to select the directory/folder and then provide a file name
• To save a model/volume, FIRST select it for storing and THEN select the directory/folder.
  • to save as a different format, change the extension by clicking at the end of the string and then editing. nrrd is for nrrd files

File->Close Scene

File->Exit

Edit menu

Edit->Set Home

Edit->Undo

Edit->Redo

Edit->Edit Box

Edit->New Fiducial List

View menu

View->Cache & RemoteIO Manager

View->Application Settings Interface

View->Font Size

View->Font Family

Window menu

Window->Hide Main Panel (F5)

Window->Hide Bottom Panel (F6)

Window->Toolbars

Window->Log Window (Ctrl+Alt+E)

Window->Tcl Interactor (Ctrl+T)

Help menu

Help->Browse Tutorials

Help->About Slicer3

Feedback menu

Feedback->Report a Bug

Feedback->Report a Usability Issue

Feedback->Make a Feature Request

Feedback->Community

Slice Viewers

• Slice viewers can be used to specify oblique reformats using the 'Reformat' orientation (instead of axial, coronal, sagittal) and CTRL-Right-Button-Move (subject to change).
• On each viewer, there is a menu button in the upper left of the control pane that usually says "axial", "coronal", or "sagittal". There is a forth option that one can select from the button which is "reformat".