[vtkusers] about volume rendering in medicine.

[Antoine ROSSET]

> hi, vtk users,
> 
> If there are some medical related guys here, it is possible for them to
> answer my question. My question is more radiologist specific question. I
> am doing volume rendering. I want to know what is the task of a radiologist
> in general for analyzing CT slices. How do they do this analysis based on
> 2D CT slices?(where can I find this kind of information?) Is it possible for
> volume rendering to detect all the structures of interest based on the slice
> information?

For image interpretation, radiologists always look at the axial CT images,
and sometimes use MPR images if slice thickness is less than 3mm. No
radiologists would never give a diagnostic by simply looking at a 3D
reconstruction like volume rendering, MIP, ... Volume rendering and MIP are
'nice' images to show to clinicians, but they are not 'diagnostic' images.

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Sincerely,

Antoine

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