Slicer-IGT
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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].
Overview
This is a project page for Slicer for Image Guided Therapy. 3D Slicer (simply Slicer) is a multi-platform, free open source software (FOSS) for visualization and image computing. The project is aimed at extending Slicer for Image Guided Therapy.
- 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
People
Sandy Wells (U41 Computational Core PI)
Nobuhiko Hata, PhD (Slicer IGT Project Director)
Simon DiMaio, PhD (Real-time image control)
Alex Golby, MD (Neurosurgery)
Haiying Liu, MS (Senior Engineer)
Eigil Samset, PhD (tracker I/O)
Clare Tempany, MD (Prostate Therapy)
Contact Information
Nobuhiko Hata leads the development of Slicer for IGT at National Center for Image Guided Therapy. For more information please email him at: hata {at-mark} bwh.harvard.edu
Screenshots
[To be filled by H Liu]
For Users
For Developers
Collaborators and Sponsors
For Slicer-IGT Collaborators and Sponsors
Downloads
- Slicer 2.6
- Stable version actively tested in MR-guided therapies. Not actively updated.
Windows binary
Linux binary
Source code (SVN trunk)
Tutorial
- Slicer for IGT 2.6 Tutorial (Power Point)
- This presentation guides you to download and install Slicer version 2.6 for IGT, and perform mock-up navigation surgery using a plastic skull.
For Developers
Users/Collaborators/Sponsors
- List of collaborators
- List of sponsors
- Users publications
- This page lists papers using Slicer for Image Guided Therapy.
- Call for snapshots
- We are soliciting a snapshot of Slicer used in IGT. Please send a message to Nobuhiko Hata (hata {at-mark} bwh.harvard.edu} with the project description. Your contact info and snapshots will be listed in this page. Thank you!
Events
- September 14-15, 2006: We have been invited to participate in NIH Workshop on Standards in Change Measurement. This workshop will potentially set the stage for additional workshops that focus on Image Guided Interventions and Open Source standards.
- Sept-06-2006, 2006 IBMISPS conference: talk by R. Kikinis about FOSS
