down and dirty way for us, saved an animation of slicing through the data (most viewer software lets you do this)
map that onto a grid animated at the same rate to move up in Y, use the grid to emit static particles that take their colour from the texture optionally mesh with polygonizer (add colour at vertices) rough and ready, but good for dodgy hologram images a _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss Sent: 19 April 2013 18:26 To: softimage Subject: Re: Ultra sound or MRI scan formats to common 3D formats? Ive been looking at this whilst learnign houdini, i was able to open the dicom in photoshop and save the individual images out. you can then just stack them in 3d and convert to voxels. ( the dicom header should have all the info about dimensions) _sam On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Ben Rogall <[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, haven't touched that plugin in years. There are a bunch of applications which can do what you want though. We just had a discussion about some of them over at the Modo forum: http://forums.luxology.com/topic.aspx?f=4 <http://forums.luxology.com/topic.aspx?f=4&t=75517> &t=75517 Any more details about what you want to accomplish? Ben On 4/19/2013 6:16 AM, Dan Yargici wrote: Ben's old Volume Loader shader could do that. I'm %99.9999 sure it won't work with newer versions though... http://shaders.moederogall.com/ On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: I Know when I was looking into is for Bio Med we used a program called Osirix http://www.osirix-viewer.com/ Not sure if they got around to the 3d exporter bits though. On 2013/04/19 12:53 PM, "Darren Blencowe | VA" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Folks, > >Just putting this out there in case anyone has done this thing before - >Does >anyone know how/tried to turn any ultra sound scan file types or MRI data >into something remotely 3D - and in a format that is 3D package friendly? > >I am still digging but it appears the majority of scan formats are 2D >sections/plans not *really* 3D? > >I've found this link http://www.mccauslandcenter.sc.edu/mricro/dicom/ >This >is quite a common scan data format but again on skimming appears to be >only >2D/sectional. > >Useful nuggets would be: > >scan file formats that are definitely 3D >any small apps/programs that can change these into .stl .vrml .obj or even >.dxf > >any help gratefully received! > >Thanks, > >D. > > > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2240 / Virus Database: 2641/5745 - Release Date: 04/14/13
