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Version 1.5 of OsiriX, the 100% FREE and Open-Source DICOM Viewer is
NOW available

What's new in this version:

- Support for Segmented 16-bits Palettes (ALOKA Ultrasounds, for
example)
- ITK 1.8.0 is now available in OsiriX
- Segmentation: Growing Regions 2D & 3D (ITK)
- Manual Registration ("Set Offset" menu item from 2D viewer menu)
- Open images directly from an URL path (available also for
Applescript)
- Email function enhanced: if an outgoing message is already created
and opened, the function will add the image instead of creating a new
outgoing message
- 16-bits Volume Rendering
- Cursor icons
- Export rotational movies on original or perpendicular view in the
MPR-2D viewer
- STL Exporter for Surface Rendering
- Reduce Series plugin
- Orthogonal Re-slice plugin
- Editable 'Comments' and 'state' fields in the DICOM database window
- New Preferences Window
- OpenGL based VolumeRendering (Texture Mapping engine)
- Direct iPhoto Export for 2D and 3D images (possibility to
synchronize the images to the "iPod photo")
- JPEG2000 DICOM sender
- Multiple screens support
- Online Do***entation : Wiki web site:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Online_Osirix_Do***entation
- Routing functions
- New CD/DVD DICOM burner

Download it at:
http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Index2.html

About OsiriX...

OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images
produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal
microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). It can also read many other
file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and
Quicktime. It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image
comunication and image file formats. OsiriX is able to receive images
transferred by DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or medical
imaging modality (STORE SCP - Service Class Provider, STORE SCU -
Service Class User, and Query/Retrieve) .

OsiriX has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization
of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D
Viewer (3D series with temporal dimension, for example: Cardiac-CT)
and 5D Viewer (3D series with temporal and functional dimensions, for
example: Cardiac-PET-CT). The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering
modes: Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume
Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP). All these modes
support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two
different series (for example: PET-CT).

Osirix is at the same time a DICOM PACS workstation for medical
imaging and an image processing software for medical research
(radiology and nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D imaging,
confocal microscopy and molecular imaging.

Osirix supports a complete plug-ins architecture that allows you to
expand the capabilities of OsiriX for your personal needs! This
plug-in architecture gives you access to the powerfull Cocoa framework
with an easy object-oriented and dynamic language: Objective-C.

Current features of the program

DICOM File Support
• Read and display all DICOM Files (mono-frame, multi-frames)
• Read and display the new MRI/CT multi-frame format (5200 group)
• JPEG Lossy, JPEG Lossless, JPEG2000, RLE
• Monochrome1, Monochrome2, RGB, YBR, Planar, Palettes, ...
• Support custom (non-square) Pixel Aspect Ratio
• 8, 12, 16 bits
• Write 'SC' (Secondary Capture) DICOM Files from any 2D/3D
reconstructions
• Read and display all DICOM Meta-Data
• Read AND Write DICOM CD/DVD (DICOMDIR support)
• Export DICOM Files to TIFF, JPEG, Quicktime, RAW, DICOM, PACS

DICOM Network Support
• Store User (STORE-SCU, DICOM Send)
• Store Provider (STORE-SCP, DICOM Listener)
• Query and Retrieve User (Query and Retrieve studies from a PACS
server)

Non-DICOM Files Support
• LSM files from Zeiss (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
• BioRadPIC files (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
• TIFF (8, 12, 16, 32 bits)
• ****YZE (8, 12, 16, 32 bits)
• PNG, JPEG, PDF (multi-pages), Quicktime, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4

2D Viewer
• Customizable Toolbars
• Bicubic Interpolation
• Thick Slab for multi-slices CT and MRI (Mean, MIP, Volume
Rendering)
• ROIs: Polygons, Circles, Pencil, Rectangles, Point, ...
• Multi-Buttons and Scroll-wheel mouses supported
• Custom CLUT (Color Look-Up Tables)
• Custom 3x3 and 5x5 Convolution Filters (Bone filters, ...)
• 4D Viewer for Cardiac-CT and other temporal series
• Image Fusion for PET-CT exams with adjustable blending percentage
• Image subtraction for XA
• Plugins support for external functions

3D Post-Processing
• MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) with Thick Slab (Mean, MIP,
Volume Rendering)
• MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection)
• Volume Rendering
• Surface Rendering
• Stereo Vision with Red/Blue glasses
• Export any 3D images to Quicktime, Quicktime VR, TIFF, JPEG
• All 3D viewers support 'Image Fusion' for PET-CT exams and '4D
mode' for Cardiac-CT.

Optimization
• Altivec (Velocity Engine) enhanced (up to 8-10 times faster)
• G5 alignment (for best performance on G5 processors)
• Multi-threaded
• Asyncronous reading
• Multi-processors enhanced
• Based on the Altivec & Multi-Threaded vImage library
• OpenGL for 2D Viewer and all 3D Viewers
• Graphic board accelerated
• X-Grid (Grid Computing)

Expansion & Scientific Research
• OsiriX supports a complete dynamic plugins architecture
• Access pixels directly in 32-bits float for B&W images or ARGB
values for color images
• Create and manage windows
• Access the entire Cocoa framework
• Create and manage OpenGL views
• Faster than IDL, Easier than ImageJ !

Based on Open-Source components
• Cocoa (OpenStep, GNUStep, NextStep)
• VTK (Visualization Toolkit)
• ITK (Insight Toolkit)
• PixelMed (David Clunie)
• Papyrus 3.0 (Digital Imaging Unit)
• DICOM Offis
• OpenGL
• XML-Expat
• LibTIFF
• Jasper
• LibJPEG

Download it at:
http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Index2.html