[vtkusers] Showing orthogonal slices

[Michel Audette]

Hello Hendrik,

have you checked out the freely avaible software at Atamai.com? I don't know
if it's what you're looking for exactly, but at first glance it looks like
it would fit the bill.

Good luck,

Michel

Michel Audette, Ph.D.,
Research Fellow, Surgical Simulation,
Surgical Assist Technology Group,
AIST,
Namiki 1-2,
Tsukuba, Japan,
305-8564.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hendrik Belitz" <h.belitz at fz-juelich.de>
To: <vtkusers at vtk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: [vtkusers] Showing orthogonal slices


> 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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