[Paraview] Viewing multiple image volumes that aren't in the same space

[Berk Geveci]

Unfortunately, VTK does not support volumes that are not axis aligned.
I think that the easiest thing to do is to use ITK to convert this to
vtkStructuredGrid. You will loose the ability to volume render though.

-berk

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Richard Beare <richard.beare at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some slice based MRI data that I'd like to display in paraview
> (so I can do contouring and so on). I have multiple slices in
> different planes that I'd like to display in their correct relative
> positions.
>
> The problem is that paraview appears to ignore all of the orientation
> information, so I'm after ideas about how to do this correctly.
>
> Some thoughts I'd like some recommendations on are:
>
> use ITK to generate a coordinate for each voxel and convert to a
> format which supports position and value for each node - but which
> one?
>
> Load as an image and apply the transformations inside paraview. This
> would require extracting the transformation matrices from the mri
> data, which is doable, but I'm not sure how to apply the
> transformation in paraview - any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
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