Volume Processor .Net Properties

  

General Technical Specifications

• System requirements: Windows 98 or later with .Net Framework 2.0 installed
• Hardware requirements: 16 or 24-bit color
• Current version: 4.0.0.0
• Price: Free
• Author: Ömer Cengiz ÇELEBİ

FEATURES

SUPPORTED DATA FILE FORMATS

• DF1
• RAW
• VOL
• ANALYZE
• DICOM3

VOLUME VISUALIZATION ALGORITHMS IMPLEMENTED

• Thresholding
• Layer Visualization
• Surface Normal Estimation
• Surface Smoothing – Surface Normal Enhancement
• 3D Reconstruction
• Direct volume rendering
• Rendering acceleration with Ray Leaping
• Multi-planar reconstruction
• 3D Multi-planar reconstruction

Projection Models

• First-hit projection
• Maximum-intensity projection
• Weighted additive projection

Surface Normal Estimation Algorithms

• Depth-only shading
• Depth-gradient shading
• Geometry-based shading
• 4D Regression based shading
• Grey-level gradient shading

Shading Model

• Phong Shading Model

ROTATION CONTROLLER ALGORITHMS IMPLEMENTED

• Trackball
• Virtual Sphere

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS IMPLEMENTED

2D & 3D Image Enhancement Algorithms

• Contrast Enhancement
• Gamma Enhancement
• Brightness Enhancement
• Color Invert

2D Image Edge Detection Algorithms

• Sobel edge detection
• Laplacian edge detection
• Logarithmic edge detection
• Kirsch edge detection
• Prewitt edge detection

 

GUI FUNCTIONALITY

Tools

• Dataset histogram viewer
• Dataset header editor
• Data values editing
• Scientific calculator
• 256 color look-up table editor
• Command-line with several functions
• Note editor
• Synthetic data generator
• Projection parameters information tool
• Memory panel tool
• Coordinate system conversion tools

Saving Dataset/Image

• Export and Import surface normal vectors
• Import look-up tables
• Saving dataset as AVI animation
• Saving 2D and 3D images
• Capturing and saving view screen
• Conversion and saving data all file formats to Raw and Df1 formats

2D SPECIFICATIONS

• 2D distance measurement
• 2D Cine Control
• 2D Cine Frequency Control
• 2D Image Flip and Rotate
• Color Lookup Tables

Histogram Functions

• Dataset Histogram Analysis tool
• Creation of arbitrary look-up color tables based on histogram

Data Information Screen

• Color intensities for 2D images
• 2D coordinates for 2D images

3D SPECIFICATIONS

• Capturing Visualization Parameters
• Sharing captured visualization parameters
• 3D Image Flip and Rotate
• Full screen view mode

Projection Controls

• View window width and height adjustment
• Visualization of dataset borders
• Coronal, sagittal, axial and arbitrary view capability

3D Cutout Controls

• Arbitrary definition of cutout regions in dataset
• Arbitrary definition of cut-planes along all axes

Shading Parameters

• Ambient reflection coefficient
• Diffuse reflection coefficient
• Specular reflection coefficient
• Specular reflection parameter
• Light source left/right, top/bottom, close/far
• Light intensity, object surface color, ambient light color adjustment

Animation

• Arbitrary 3D Image and Animation generation
• Animation sharing with colleagues
• Saving animations
• Animation frequency control
• Animation circulation controls

Data Information Screen

• Rendering CPU time
• Shading CPU time
• 3D coordinates for 3D and 2D images
• 2D coordinates for 3D and 2D images
• Projection parameters
• Shading parameters

• Surface normal enhancement parameters