Feature highlights:

  • High Definition Volume Rendering®
  • Tools for 3D measurement and fusion with polygonal models
  • Interactive modification of all rendering parameters
  • Instant point-and-click segmentation
  • Instant free-hand-cut segmentation
  • Classification of voxels with identical scalar values to different transfer functions
  • Toggle lighting function for any transfer function segment
  • Interactive fly-through auto-navigation
  • Interactive arbitrary cut planes
  • Unified slab thickness
  • User-defined adaptive control of speed vs. quality
  • Instant point-and-click measurement with subvoxel precision
  • Support of stereoscopic mode
  • Gradient modulation control
  • Non-blocking/blocking execution
  • Network data compression: JPEG lossy/lossless 8/12/16
  • Volumetric shadowing

Performance highlights:

  • Superior interactive supersampling performance
  • Interactive supersampling of the entire dataset
  • No downsampling or sub-volume resampling
  • Interactive modification of transfer functions
  • Rendering is performed upon the original data without modification
  • No preprocessing

Scalability highlights:

  • No video card required
  • No specialized hardware (ASIC) required
  • True software-only solution
  • Works with off-the-shelf PCs and laptops
  • Client/server architecture
  • Clustering support
  • Efficiently scales with larger projection planes
  • Efficiently scales with larger datasets
  • Efficiently scales with multiple CPUs/cores

Rendering types:

  • Parallel volume rendering
  • Perspective volume rendering
  • MIP and Fading MIP
  • MPR/Curved MPR
  • RaySum/MinIP

OS support:

  • Server:
    • Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
    • RedHat Linux
    • Macintosh OS X (Intel-based)
  • Client:
    • Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
    • RedHat Linux
    • Macintosh OS X (PowerPC and Intel)

Hardware optimization:

  • Requires Intel/AMD CPU with SSE2 support
  • Optimized for SMP (2-256x CPUs/cores)
  • Optimized for Hyper-Threading
  • Optimized for SSE2
  • Minimized CPU <--> memory bandwidth requirements

RAD support:

  • Rendering Java controls
  • Transfer Function Editor control
  • Ready-to-use Java controls for modification of rendering pipeline
  • Integrated extendable user input handling
  • Support for DICOM 3.0 datasets
  • Direct access to rendering engine

Data format:

  • Input: DICOM 3.0 compliant data or raw data
    • X, Y, and Z dimensions may be any number from 65 to 4096 and none are required to be identical to each other
    • From 2 bits up to 16 bits signed and unsigned data
    • Shared memory initialization is supported to enable rendering of images in out of process server module with zero memory duplication
  • Note: The 32-bit version can render interactively a 512x512x4096 dataset with 3GB RAM. The 64-bit version may render up to 4096*4096*4096.
  • Output: Arbitrary size of the projection plane, up to 4096x4096