Voxtool
Voxtool from General Electric.
- Platforms: Sun (Advantage Windows).
- Comments:
- Matti Haveri : We use Voxtool 1.0.4 in a
Sparcstation (64MB of RAM) connected via Ethernet to General
Electric's High Speed Advantage and GE Sytec CAT-scanners.
Segmentation is done through lower and higher HU-thresholds.
Shaded surface display, MIP, RaySum, Integral and Multiplanar
reformatting (MPR) as well as movie loop (if memory permits
full 360 degree rotation with 6 degree intervals is sometimes
possible). Select/remove object, filter floaters
(user-definable size), scalpel (user-definable cut depth),
erosion, dilation, open bridges and close gaps-functions.
Intersection, union, difference and delta-functions between
manipulated models. Seems to be quite stable - I've crashed
it only a few times. Restarting the program or rebooting clears
occasional memory-problems. Can save only two models at a time
and the program sometimes loses link to the original slices
which is _very_ annoying. 3D-images can be saved as
individual still-images to disk in GE's image-format
(hope we will be able to open and view this format in
the other platforms as well). In the current version
area-measurements require at least two contiguos slices which
is also annoying. If the 3D-model has to use more than 60
512x512 image's space as virtual memory the program is
too slow to use interactively.