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• Win 2000/NT/9x based system for 3D image visualization and analysis
• Fast Ray Cast, Hybrid, MIP, X-Ray Volume Rendering
• Iso-surface extraction and Surface Rendering
• Real-time volume rendering using the Mitsubishi RT-Viz vg500 real-time volume rendering card
• Key-frame based Animation capability
• Plug-in support for extedinbility (existing plugins for Segmentation, Landmark placement and vessel path extraction from MRA data)
• Collaboration support for multi-user environment
• Supported I/O
  
  Input:
  • DICOM 3.0,
  • Raw [8-bit, 16-bit, endian control, signed/unsigned, RGB (24-bit: Ideal for microscopy), RGBA (24+16bit alpha: Ideal for Visible Human or segmented datasets)],
  • Raw Image Stack with option header skip,
  • TIFF image stack, BMP image stack,
  • MIRA (custom) volume image format,
  • ANALYZE 7.5

  
  Output:

• Raw (8bit, 16bit),
• MIRA (8-bit, 16-bit),
• Raw Image Stack,
• ANALYZE 7.5.
  
  
• Easy to use interface for specification of Rotation, Lighting, VOI, Transfer functions, Insight View, Oblique cuts, Rendering method.
• Multi-planar viewing and navigation
• Mail, Save, Print images/screens
• Multi-volume support
• MATLAB-like console interface for multi-volume analysis, mathematical operations, filtering, masking, resizing, etc.
• Backgrond Color

Screen Shots & User Interaction : See etdips Specifications/Interface Help

This application uses the OpenGL library for 3D rendering and image display.

Please acknowledge etdips in any published or presented work in one of two ways:

References:

R. Mullick, S. Venkataraman, S. Warusavithana, H.T. Nguyen, and R. Raghavan, “eTDIPS: 2D/3D Image Processing System for Volume Rendering and Telemedicine,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR), June 1998.

R. Mullick, S. V. Warusavithana, V. Shalini, and P. Pang, “Plug-Ins: A Software Model for Biomedical Imaging and Visualization Research,” Biomedical Imaging Symposium: Visualizing the Future of Biology and Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), June 1999.

S. V. Warusavithana, S. Venkataraman and R. Mullick, “A PC based collaborative visualization system,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Volume Graphics-Volume II, pp. 391-407, Swansea, UK, Mar. 1999.

V. Shalini and R. Mullick, “An Object-Oriented Paradigm for Interactive Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization,” Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computing, Chennai, INDIA, Tata-McGraw Hill Publishers, pp. 381-9, Dec. 1997.

Web Site:

http://www.cc.nih.gov/cip/software/etdips/

You can refer to etdips as a multi-dimensional volume visualization and analysis software, co-developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) under CRADA (CACR-645).

Contributions are also welcome for images for the etdips gallery. Please send your image along with a short (50 word or less) description (with a URL) to the contact address below.