[vtkusers] VTK and Osirix plugins

[Anja Ende]

Many thanks! I will give this a shot...

Anja

On 29/03/2008, Emmanouil Moschidis <moshman65 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Anja
>
> in order to link your plugin against the VTK libraries you need to import to
> your project the VTKHeaders and the VTKLibs (can be found in the OsiriX
> source code). Also if you are planning to write VTK code in your plug-in,
> which basically means C++ code, be sure you have changed the extension of
> your implementation files to .mm. Otherwise the compiler will return errors
> when checking the C++ code. Last but not least note that OsiriX represents
> two dimensional images as DCMPix (origin top left corner), while VTK as
> vtkImageData (origin lower left corner). So in  order to have the right
> result in the 2D Viewer you would probably take care of the orientation. In
> case you want to visualize your resulting image in the OsiriX 2D Viewer for
> sure you will need to make this transformation (vtkImageData->DCMPix) as
> well.
>
> In general good idea is to check the messages in the Yahoo! OsiriX group for
> the developers . You may find some useful information there.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/osirix-dev
>
> HTH
> Emmanouil
>
> Anja Ende <anja.ende at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  Hi everyone,
>
> This is actually a question about using VTK in an OSIRIX plugin. Does
> anyone have a small example on how one can go about achieving that?
>
> I have a DICOM image that I want to read inside OSIRIX and then what I
> want to do is run the vtkContourFilter and visualize the output.
> However, I am not even able to have the Plugin even include a VTK
> header so far. Unfortunately, the documentation on this subject is
> also very scarce. Has anyone here been able to do it with any success
> and provide some suggestions on how to start? It would be really
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Anja
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Cheers,

Anja