[vtkusers] Showing orthogonal slices

[Stefan Wesarg]

Try <vtkImageReslice>!
It can extract arbitrary slices from a volume. We use it for our medical 
application as well. ;-)

Stefan

Hendrik Belitz wrote:

>For an medical application, I want to show three orthogonal slices of a volume 
>dataset. 
>Extracting these slices via vtkImageDataGeometryFilter provides good results, 
>but produces large meshes which slow down the application significantly 
>(there's also a lot of additional geometry shown in the application). 
>A much better solution would be to extract the image slices and show them as a 
>texture on a simple plane. My problem is to find a suitable vtk class to 
>extract an 2D vtkImageData slice from a 3D vtkImageData dataset. Does anyone 
>of you has some advice on this?
>
>Regards
>Hendrik
>
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>Hendrik Belitz
>Central Institute of Electronics
> Multimodal image processing workgroup
>Research Center Juelich
>email: h.belitz at fz-juelich.de
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