3D Slicer
3D Slicer is a free, open source software platform designed for the visualization, processing, segmentation, registration, and analysis of medical, biomedical, and other 3D images and meshes. It also facilitates the planning and navigation of image-guided procedures. Serving as a desktop application, 3D Slicer addresses advanced image computing challenges with a focus on clinical and biomedical applications. Additionally, it functions as a development platform, enabling the rapid creation and deployment of custom solutions for both research and commercial products. The platform boasts a robust community of knowledgeable users and developers collaborating to advance medical computing. 3D Slicer is distributed under a BSD-style license, imposing no restrictions on its use in academic or commercial projects. However, it is not FDA-approved, and users are responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable regulations.
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Amira Software
Thermo Scientific Amira Software is a powerful, universal 2D–5D solution for visualizing, analyzing, and understanding life science and biomedical research data from various imaging modalities, including optical and electron microscopy, CT, MRI, and other techniques. With incredible speed and flexibility, Amira Software supports advanced 2D–5D bioimaging workflows in research areas ranging from structural and cellular biology to tissue imaging, neuroscience, preclinical imaging, and bioengineering. Key features include import and image data processing, visualization and exploration, advanced segmentation, measurement, quantification, and analysis, as well as specialized tools for molecular visualization, object tracking, filament tracing, meshing for finite element analysis, diffusion tensor imaging, 3D registration, and biomaterial deformation analysis. Amira Software also offers customization options and access to ecosystems such as MATLAB, Python, and custom C++.
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Slice:Drop
Slice:Drop is a web-based, interactive viewer for medical imaging data that allows users to instantly view scientific and medical imaging data in 3D. It supports a variety of scientific file formats out of the box, including volumes, models, and fibers. Users can simply drag and drop their medical imaging files onto the website without any necessary conversions, and they are ready to render. Slice:Drop uses WebGL and HTML5 canvas to render the data in 2D and 3D, utilizing its own open source toolkit called XTK. All data stays on the client, and nothing gets transferred via the internet, ensuring data privacy and security. The platform offers features such as 3D opacity adjustment, window/level settings, thresholding, and label map opacity control for volumes; show/hide, opacity, and scalars settings for meshes; and show/hide and fiber length threshold for fibers.
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3D-DOCTOR
3D-DOCTOR is an advanced 3D modeling, image processing, and measurement software for MRI, CT, PET, microscopy, scientific, and industrial imaging applications. It supports both grayscale and color images stored in DICOM, TIFF, Interfile, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PGM, MRC, RAW, or other image file formats. 3D-DOCTOR creates 3D surface models and volume rendering from 2D cross-section images in real-time on your PC. You can export the polygonal mesh models to STL, DXF, IGES, 3DS, OBJ, VRML, PLY, XYZ, and other formats for surgical planning, simulation, quantitative analysis, finite element analysis, and rapid prototyping applications. You can calculate 3D volume and make other 3D measurements for quantitative analysis. 3D-DOCTOR's vector-based tools support easy image data handling, measurement, and analysis. 3D CT/MRI images can be re-sliced easily along an arbitrary axis. Multi-modality images can be registered to create image fusions.
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