[vtkusers] OsiriX 2.6 now available: Open-Source DICOM viewer based on VTK 5 & ITK

[Antoine Rosset]

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

Version 2.6 of OsiriX, the 100% FREE and Open-Source DICOM Viewer is
NOW available, based on VTK 5 and ITK

What's new in this version:

- DICOM Print (Thanks to aycan company, http://www.aycan.com)
- Standard printing: layouts
- Orientation Tool for the 2D viewer: reslice series directly in the 2D
viewer
- Support iWork Pages for Reports
- Injected Dose and Injection Time are now editable for SUV computation
- Preferences for fixed views in 3D viewers
- Export movies as AVI or MPEG4 (only Quicktime for previous versions)
- Quicktime is now entirely based on QTKit framework
- Corrects a bug with JPEG RGB/YBR images
- New routing system, based on CoreData filters (SQL)
- Automatically compress/decompress DICOM JPEG files in the DICOM
Listener
- Automatically compress/decompress DICOM JPEG files when exporting or
burning CD/DVD
- Create DMG files instead of burning CD (shift-click on the burning
icon).
- Apply Convolution filter on raw data
- Interpolate in Z direction for Resample Data plugin
- Cobb's angle plugin
- 64 bits ready for MacOS 10.5
- Convert ROIs to DICOM SR
- Multiple memory leaks corrected
- Support VOI LUT (see 2D viewer menu)
- Export DICOM files in flat folder
- Change series origin for image fusion (2D Viewer menu)

See you next week during RSNA 2006 !

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 
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