3D-DOCTOR is an advanced 3D modeling, image processing, and measurement software for MRI, CT, PET, microscopy, scientific, and industrial 3D imaging applications. 3D-DOCTOR supports both grayscale and color images stored in DICOM, TIFF, Interfile, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PGM, 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 surface models to STL (ASCII and Binary), DXF, IGES, 3DS, OBJ, VRML, PLY, XYZ and other formats for surgical planning, simulation, quantitative 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. Misaligned slices can be automatically or semi-automatically aligned using 3D-DOCTOR's image alignment functions. The 3DBasic scripting tool makes it easy to create Basic-like sophisticated 3D imaging programs.
3D-DOCTOR is approved by FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) for medical imaging and 3D visualization applications. It has been named the Top 3D Imaging Software by Scientific Computing & Instrumentation Magazine in the Year 2002 and Year 2000 Annual Technology Leaders Issue.
3D-DOCTOR is currently being used by many organizations around the world, including MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Brigham Women Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Stanford Univ. Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Univ., SUNY Buffalo Imaging Center, Carnegie Mellon Univ., The Univ. of Michigan, Oakland Univ., Univ. of Saskatchewan (Canada), US Navy, US Army, Volkswagen AG (Germany), Univ. of Pittsburgh, ABB Combustion Eng. Sys., Alberta Research Council (Alberta, Canada), The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology of Austria, Phase 3 Imaging Systems, Monash Univ. (Australia), Staten Island Univ. Hospital, American Science & Engineering, MicroVision (France), Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tuebingen (Germany), Minus 9 Technology (Canada), Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Japan), Univ. of Zilina (Slovakia), Kyung Hee University (South Korea), Univ. Di Catania (Italy), Univ. of Virginia, Univ. of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Max-Planck-Institut (Germany) , Knolls Atomic Power Lab., Univ. of Minnesota, Trial Practice, National Hospital of Norway, City Univ. of Hong Kong and many others.
Functions
3D Mesh Modeling from CT, MRI and other Images
Input Image: CT, MRI, PET and other cross-sectional images in DICOM, TIFF, BMP, JPEG, Interfile, PNG, PGM, GIF, Raw Image Data, and other uncompressed image formats. Image files in various vendor specific formats can be easily read using 3D-DOCTOR's universal image configuration and input function. Both grayscale (8-bit and 16-bit) and color images are supported. Scanned CT/MRI films can easily be cropped using the template-based function for 3D imaging applications.
Segmentation Tools: the fully automatic texture-based segmentation for grayscale and color images, the thresholding-based Interactive Segmention for CT images, the region-based Object Segmentation and the easy-to-use polygon-based manual tracing.
3D Model Export: STL (ASCII and Binary), AutoCAD DXF, 3D Studio (3DS), IGES, VRML, Wavefront OBJ, PLY, raw triangles, and other 3D graphics file formats for rapid prototyping, 3D printing, finite element analysis, animation and visualization applications.
Once object boundaries are generated from segmentation, 3D mesh models are created in using one of the surface rendering functions. Unlimited number of objects representing different tissues are supported .
Measurement and Quantitative Analysis
Measurements include area, 3D surface area, 3D volume, distance, profile, and image region histogram. Quantitative report of objects (number of pixels, pixel density, statistical data) is easily obtained for research and analysis.
3D Visualization
Real-time 3D surface rendering and volume rendering for visualization applications. 3D Animation. Create 3D models from CT, MRI and microscopy images and use 3D-DOCTOR's advanced animation control function to move each object independently and generate an AVI movie file.
Images of different modalities can be registered using the 3D image registration function and fused together to create a new fusion image. The Reslice command takes an image with variable spacing between slices to create a new image of evenly space slices or simply create a new image with a different slice thickness. An image can be resliced along a user-defined axis so more accurate measurements can be made for certain features.
Advanced 3D Image Processing
3D Computed Tomography: Create parallel cross-section, volume images using x-ray images taken at angles around an object. Turn your x-ray machine into a full CT system using 3D-DOCTOR.
Other image processing functions include: template-based scanned film cropping, volume resizing, 3D image filtering, Image rotation, orientation adjustment, contrast adjustment, background removal, image combination, linear feature extraction, pattern recognition, segmentation, image mosaic, and color classification can all be performed on your 3D images.
3D Image Restoration by Deconvolution: 3D-DOCTOR provides two highly efficient deconvolution methods for 3D image restoration and reconstruction, a fast nearest neighbor algorithm and an iterative maximum entropy algorithm.
3DBasic scripting language will let you create your own Basic-like sophisticated programs using 3D-DOCTOR's advanced imaging and rendering functions quickly. |
