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*Provides software foundation (GUI, Image I/O, 3D viewer, tracker support), and you can focus on developping your original clinical application
 
*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
 
*Available for Windows, Mac, Linux
*Access to state-of-art scientific medical image processing algorithm as well as most of commercial tracking device
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*Access to state-of-art scientific medical image processing algorithms as well as most of commercial tracking devices
 
*[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer-IGT#Events Affiliated scientific workshops and seminars] to discuss and exchange ideas
 
*[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer-IGT#Events Affiliated scientific workshops and seminars] to discuss and exchange ideas
 
*Increasing visibility of your research in IGT community using popular software platform
 
*Increasing visibility of your research in IGT community using popular software platform

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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 to extend 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)

Screenshots

[To be filled by H Liu]

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.

Contact Information

Nobuhiko Hata, the lead developer for "Slicer for IGT" development team at National Center for Image Guided Therapy for more information. Email: hata {at-mark} bwh.harvard.edu



Call for Collaboration

Job Opening

Links

Internal Developers page (authorization required)