Medical Imaging News

August 30, 2006

3D on PCs: Processing Tool Makes it Possible

Designed to circumvent the highly specialized, costly 3D workstations typically required for 3D postprocessing of medical images, a new set of 3D algorithms make it possible to perform oblique multiplanar reconstructions (MPR), surface-shaded display (SSD), maximum intensity projections (MIP), and even volume rendering (VRT) on common personal computers.

Created through a cooperative effort by London-based IMAGE Information Systems Ltd and the company's partners at the Technical University of Ilmenau and the University of Lübeck, the algorithms were implemented into the iQ-VIEW software, IMAGE’s intuitive DICOM image viewer.

To run properly, the software requires at minimum a Pentium IV >=1 GHz processor, >=1GB of RAM, and a fast, but common, graphics card, like those used for computer games. An evaluation version of the software is available for download.

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