[vtkusers] OsiriX 1.3 now available

Fri Jul 23 12:50:56 EDT 2004

http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Index2.html

Version 1.3 of OsiriX, the 100% FREE and Open-Source DICOM Viewer is 
NOW available

What's new in this version:

  - Major speed optimization: Volume Rendering 3 times faster, MPR 8 
times faster, MIP 3 times faster
  - Manage multiple database ".dat" files
  - Quicktime Export for MPR-2D
  - Thick Slab for MPR-2D and MPR-3D
  - Thick Slab in Volume Rendering for 2D Viewer, MPR-2D, MPR-3D
  - iDisk : copy/retrieve from your account
  - Send an email (Mail.app) with current image
  - OsiriX survey
  - DICOM Anonymizer
  - MIP RGB
  - Measurements in 2D and 3D MPR modes
  - Many minor bugs corrected

Download it at:
http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Index2.html

About OsiriX...

  OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images 
produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal 
microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). It can also read many other 
file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. 
It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image comunication 
and image file formats. OsiriX is able to receive images transferred by 
DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or medical imaging modality 
(STORE SCP - Service Class Provider, STORE SCU - Service Class User, 
and Query/Retrieve) .

OsiriX has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization 
of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D 
Viewer (3D series with temporal dimension, for example: Cardiac-CT) and 
5D Viewer (3D series with temporal and functional dimensions, for 
example: Cardiac-PET-CT). The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering 
modes: Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume 
Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP). All these modes 
support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two 
different series (for example: PET-CT).

Osirix is at the same time a DICOM PACS workstation for medical imaging 
and an image processing software for medical research (radiology and 
nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D imaging, confocal microscopy 
and molecular imaging.

  Osirix supports a complete plug-ins architecture that allows you to 
expand the capabilities of OsiriX for your personal needs! This plug-in 
architecture gives you access to the powerfull Cocoa framework with an 
easy object-oriented and dynamic language: Objective-C.

  Current features of the program

  DICOM File Support
	• 	Read and display all DICOM Files (mono-frame, multi-frames)
	• 	Read and display the new MRI/CT multi-frame format (5200 group)
	• 	JPEG Lossy, JPEG Lossless, JPEG2000, RLE
	• 	Monochrome1, Monochrome2, RGB, YBR, Planar, Palettes, ...
	• 	Support custom (non-square) Pixel Aspect Ratio
	• 	8, 12, 16 bits
	• 	Write 'SC' (Secondary Capture) DICOM Files from any 2D/3D 
reconstructions
	• 	Read and display all DICOM Meta-Data
	• 	Read AND Write DICOM CD/DVD (DICOMDIR support)
	• 	Export DICOM Files to TIFF, JPEG, Quicktime, RAW, DICOM, PACS

DICOM Network Support
	• 	Store User (STORE-SCU, DICOM Send)
	• 	Store Provider (STORE-SCP, DICOM Listener)
	• 	Query and Retrieve User (Query and Retrieve studies from a PACS 
server)

Non-DICOM Files Support
	• 	LSM files from Zeiss (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
	• 	BioRadPIC files (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
	• 	TIFF (8, 12, 16, 32 bits)
	• 	ANALYZE (8, 12, 16, 32 bits)
	• 	PNG, JPEG, PDF (multi-pages), Quicktime, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4

2D Viewer
	• 	Customizable Toolbars
	• 	Bicubic Interpolation
	• 	Thick Slab for multi-slices CT and MRI (Mean, MIP, Volume Rendering)
	• 	ROIs: Polygons, Circles, Pencil, Rectangles, Point, ...
	• 	Multi-Buttons and Scroll-wheel mouses supported
	• 	Custom CLUT (Color Look-Up Tables)
	• 	Custom 3x3 and 5x5 Convolution Filters (Bone filters, ...)
	• 	4D Viewer for Cardiac-CT and other temporal series
	• 	Image Fusion for PET-CT exams with adjustable blending percentage
	• 	Image subtraction for XA
	• 	Plugins support for external functions

3D Post-Processing
	• 	MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) with Thick Slab (Mean, MIP, Volume 
Rendering)
	• 	MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection)
	• 	Volume Rendering
	• 	Surface Rendering
	• 	Stereo Vision with Red/Blue glasses
	• 	Export any 3D images to Quicktime, Quicktime VR, TIFF, JPEG
	• 	All 3D viewers support 'Image Fusion' for PET-CT exams and '4D 
mode' for Cardiac-CT.

Optimization
	• 	Altivec (Velocity Engine) enhanced (up to 8-10 times faster)
	• 	G5 alignment (for best performance on G5 processors)
	• 	Multi-threaded
	• 	Asyncronous reading
	• 	Multi-processors enhanced
	• 	Based on the Altivec & Multi-Threaded vImage library
	• 	OpenGL for 2D Viewer and all 3D Viewers
	• 	Graphic board accelerated
	• 	X-Grid (Grid Computing)

Expansion & Scientific Research
	• 	OsiriX supports a complete dynamic plugins architecture
	• 	 Access pixels directly in 32-bits float for B&W images or ARGB 
values for color images
	• 	Create and manage windows
	• 	Access the entire Cocoa framework
	• 	Create and manage OpenGL views
	• 	Faster than IDL, Easier than ImageJ !

Based on Open-Source components
	• 	Cocoa (OpenStep, GNUStep, NextStep)
	• 	VTK (Visualization Toolkit)
	• 	ITK (Insight Toolkit)
	• 	PixelMed (David Clunie)
	• 	Papyrus 3.0 (Digital Imaging Unit)
	• 	DICOM Offis
	• 	OpenGL
	• 	XML-Expat
	• 	LibTIFF
	• 	Jasper
	• 	LibJPEG

Download it at:
http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Index2.html

Sincerely,
Antoine
  <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <>
  <> OSIRIX: Next Generation DICOM Viewer
  <> http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix
  <>
  <> Antoine ROSSET, M.D. (RossetAntoine at bluewin.ch)
  <> Apt# 109, 430 Kelton Av.
  <> Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
  <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <>