Full 3D DICOM Interactive Visualization
iMedic3D puts users inside their DICOM datasets. Driven by THI, no other system is as general and yet so powerful for exploring CT scans and other modalities. Place yourself anywhere, facing in any direction, and at any scale in your data with just one or two quick intuitive gestures.
The Clipbox
iMedic3D’s Clipbox is designed to let users declutter complex anatomy to see what’s most important. By setting rendering styles independently for regions that fall inside and outside the Clipbox, you can view areas of interest in detail while keeping the visual context of the surrounding volume. To find key features in dense data, you set the Clipbox’s exterior to near partial transparency for context with minimal occlusion, and set it’s interior to more opaque to see volumes of interest. You can then sweep the box through your data to explore internal anatomy (Figure 2).
- Figure 2. A user sweeps a rendering style through a dataset to view areas of interest within a more transparent context.
Reshaping the Clipbox is straightforward. You simply grab and hold with one hand and then stretch it to the correct size with the other hand (Figure 3).
- Figure 3. A user reshapes the Clipbox.
You can set the inside of the Clipbox to be fully transparent. This enables cutting of channels or cavities to put your viewpoint into dense or cluttered regions. This enables you to “walk” into and through your data without being blinded by data that is too close to your viewpoint (Figure 4). You can also move the Clipbox while you are inside your data, enabling you to interactively manipulate and view planes of data. Alternatively you can attach the Clipbox to your viewpoint so that nearby data will not occlude data at a distance.
- Figure 4. Visualizing anatomy from within is done using iMedic3D’s Clipbox and navigation capabilities.
Posture and Approach for Clipbox Placement
THI plays an integral part in defining an ideal Clipbox, what we call Posture and Approach. THI’s easy viewpoint scaling affords the user with a comfortable reach for surrounding a given feature with a Clipbox. If the feature of interest is small, you grow the world so that you can easily surround it (Figure 5).
- Figure 5. A user resizes his position, orientation, and size in order to comfortably place the Clipbox around a volume of interest.
If the feature of interest is large, you shrink the world for easy reach (Figure 6). In all cases, hand gestures are held in the same comfortable physical location although they are in very different locations in virtual space. There is no fatigue because the hands do not need to be held up and out in front of your body.
- Figure 6. A user sets his viewpoint so the entire dataset is within reach.
Availability
iMedic3D is available today without FDA clearance. Contact us at info@dartforms.com for a demo.
- iMedic3D Product Brochure (click to download).