Slicer3:Documentation

End-user documentation for Slicer3 is currently under development.

Please see the Slicer 101 page for tutorial on the use of Slicer2.6.

For information on the Slicer3 Execution Model

For developers: Doxygen documentation for Slicer3 (updated nightly).

General information about programming in VTK and ITK:

• Two books are available to learn VTK. The VTK User's Guide describes in detail how to work with the software. The Visualization Toolkit An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics is a higher-level theory book that describes important data structures and algorithms used in VTK. Both books can be purchased through Kitware or Amazon.com.

• A complete, online PDF Software Guide is available. Printed books can be purchased from Kitware or through Amazon.com. The theory book Insight into Images: Principles and Practice for Segmentation, Registration, and Image Analysisis is available from AK Peters and Amazon.com.

• Yale University has developed extensive documentation as part of a course on medical imaging with VTK. The full text is available on line: http://www.bioimagesuite.org/vtkbook/index.html