You might also try etdips (http://www.cc.nih.gov/cip/software/etdips/), another free program. It can make isosurfaces from CT and then record 3D landmarks using a free plug-in.
Tim Cole ___________________________ Theodore M. Cole III, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Basic Medical Science School of Medicine University of Missouri - Kansas City 2411 Holmes St. Kansas City, MO 64108 USA Phone: (816) 235-1829 FAX: (816) 235-6517 -----Original Message----- From: morphmet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:01 AM To: morphmet Subject: Re: Geometric morphometrics, computer tomography and software You might check ImageJ from the US NIH for a free solution. If I recall correctly it has reasonable ROI tools. Alternately, the AnalyzeAVW product has a poorly named but quite functional "Line Tool" that I would expect to meet your needs. Analyze is, however, far from free -- single node academic license is about US$5k. Yet another option: you could use MRIcro, export as a Analyze7.5 and write something to harvest the non-zero pixel positions. The Analyze7.5 format is well known and readily found in a google search. There are many publicly available libraries that provide i/o in that format. On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 08:47, morphmet wrote: > Greetings fellow morphometricians > > I want to use digital data from CT scans to obtain 3D landmark > coordinates for use in geometric morphometric analysis. > > I have looked at a number of software packages (Amira, Mricro, eFilm > Merge), and while some can give 3D coordinates (Amira, Mricro), none > allow sets of these landmark coordinates to be gathered and exported as > a text file or spreadsheet. > > Is anyone out there currently doing this type of CT-based geometric > morphometric research who can recommend a suitable software package? > > With thanks in advance, > > Warren Mitchell > > PhD Student > > School of Anatomy & Human Biology > > University of Western Australia > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
