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- PURPOSE:
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- In order to locate tumors, the doctors analyse a stack of parallel scanned
- images of the brains of their patients, which often requires re-slicing this
- volume along another axis.
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- Since the spectrum of a scanner often extends beyond the color spectrum
- perceptible to the human eye, the first technique (Window Leveling) applied to
- the data is to scale and offset (level) them to the interesting range. When
- time allows a preliminary indexing (Archiving) of the data, then color tables
- are also used.
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- The data size represents the most drastic constraints of Medical Imaging
- Applications : 256x256x124 or 512x512x64 16-bit datasets are fairly common,
- which often exceed the texture memory capacity. The dataset has then to be
- divided (real-time Tiling) into separate tiles, which are processed
- individually : the results are assembled in the final view.
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- MANIPULATION:
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- ---------------------------- Main Window -------------------------------
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- MIDDLEMOUSE : m: toggle min/max comparison
- vertical : level between slices
- horizontal: width
- LEFTMOUSE : i: toggle interpolation
- Zoom t: toggle texturing
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- ---------------------------- Manipulator -------------------------------
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- MIDDLEMOUSE : a: toggle antialiasing
- rotate capping plane
- MIDDLE&LEFTMOUSE : ARROW keys :
- rotate Manipulator view UP/DOWN:
- LEFTMOUSE : add/remove slices
- translate capping plane along normal LEFT/RIGHT:
- change slice interval
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- -------------------------------- NOTA -----------------------------------
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- in Max mode, turn texturing off to see the tile boundaries : the volume is
- made of eight 128x128x64 tiles, for a total size of 256x256x124 8bit voxels.
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- This demonstration prototype was developped with the collaboration of
- G.E. Medical Systems, in France.
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