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===Disclaimer===
Slicer and Slicer for IGT have been designed for research purposes only and have not been reviewed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration or by any other agency. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT CLINICAL APPLICATIONS ARE NEITHER RECOMMENDED NOR ADVISED. Read the [License for Slicer] for details. One may use Slicer for Image Guided Therapy (IGT) in clinical studies at his/her own risk after approval from his/her institution through its own IRB certification procedure. The example clinical cases listed in this website are either from mock-up or clinical validation study approved by IRB that weighed the merit against the risk of using Slicer for IGT, which is not recommended for clinical use. For more information about the human clinical trials, visit NIH-NCI web site [1].

===People===
Sandy Wells (U41 Computational Core PI)
Nobuhiko Hata, PhD (Slicer IGT Project Director)
Alex Golby, MD (Neurosurgery)
Haiying Liu, MS (Senior Engineer)
Clare Tempany, MD (Prostate Therapy)

===Summary of IGT Functions in Slicer===
3D Slicer [2] (simply Slicer) is a multi-platform, free open source software (FOSS) for visualization and image computing. The Slicer IGT project is aimed at extending Slicer for Image Guided Therapy. Currently, we supports the following IGT functions:

• Free open-source software for Image Guided Therapy research
• Provides software foundation (GUI, Image I/O, 3D viewer, tracker support), and you can focus on developping your original clinical application
• Available for Windows, Mac, Linux
• Access to state-of-art scientific medical image processing algorithms as well as most of commercial tracking devices
• Affiliated scientific workshops and seminars to discuss and exchange ideas
• Increasing visibility of your research in IGT community using popular software platform
• Available for commercialization by concealing proprietary codes*

(*) Acknowledgment needed

===Using Slicer for IGT===

• Guidelines for Clinicians
• Develop your IGT projects with Slicer
• Slicer 2 Screenshots
• Slicer 3 VisualBlog

===Events===

• January 6-11, 2008, AHM, EAB, Project Half Week
• Spring 2008 (Wednesday February 20th, 9 AM to 11 AM) Slicer3 user Training Workshop at the SPL 1249 Boylston St, Boston
• March 24-27 2008: 2008 Engineering review at Utah
• April 14, 2008: Full day Slicer 3 Users and Plug-in Workshop hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill faculty
• June 23-27, 2008, Summer Project Week
• September 6-9, 2008 MICCAI Submitted for consideration a full day Slicer 3 Users and Plug-in Workshop
• November 30 through December 5, 2008 RSNA Proposal for a daily 2 hour 3D Slicer as DICOM viewer training Workshop submitted.

===Useful Links===

• Collaborators and Sponsors
• Internal Developers Page (authorization required)
• GPU accelerated medical image processing for IGT
• VTK-Mist integration for fast volume rendering
• 3D Ultrasound Module in Slicer 3