Dear Lisa,
Thank you for your input and I appreciate it.
Best, Xunbin
Xunbin Wei, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
320 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617 355-8301 (office)
617 355-5029 (lab)
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From: "Lisa Sobierajski Avila" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: help with 3-D reconstruction
> Hello Xunbin,
>
> Another free option is the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) -
> www.visualizationtoolkit.org It is a C++ toolkit with bindings for tcl,
> python, and java (so you can script and not have to write C++). It is a
big
> system and does take some time to learn, but it has many powerful volume
> rendering techniques. There are about 500 example scripts (tcl) plus many
> C++, python, and java examples too. These examples cover many
visualization
> techniques including 2D charts, surface rendering, structured and
> unstructured grid rendering, and volume visualization.
>
> If you want to try out the VTK volume rendering in a turn-key application,
> try out VolView 1.2 (http://www.kitware.com/volview.htm) It is a
commercial
> application, but you can try it for free for 30-days. All of the rendering
> capabilities in VolView come from VTK - so you can see what sort of images
> you can create with VTK. Also, researchers can purchase low cost licenses
> of VolView in exchange for images / data through the Research Partner
> Program. If anyone wants more details, you can send me email directly.
>
> Lisa S. Avila
>
>
> At 12:25 AM 10/12/2000, Christian Soeller wrote:
> > > Xunbin Wei wrote:
> > >
> > > I think that it is sort of a problem of 3-D rendering. I probably
> > > need to find either a better function (than 3-D projection in ZEISS
> > > 410 software) or a good external software to process the raw images.
> > >
> > > If you have had similar experience or you have suggestions about the
> > > 3-D imaging processing Software/Methodology, please contact me.
> >
> >Good pieces of software that we have used in the past are Iris Explorer
> >(now sold by NAG I think) and more recently the now freely available
> >opendx (http://www.opendx.org). Both programs are powerful but take some
> >time to come to grips with.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> > Christian Soeller
> >
> >--
> >Christian Soeller [log in to unmask] x2770
> >Dept. of Physiology U. Auckland School of Medicine
> >Auckland New Zealand
>
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