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I wonder if this would work for my hospital CT scans I've had in the last ~5 years. They all come on a CD, with a software program loaded onto it with the scans
by DaftDank 5y ago
I wonder if this would work for my hospital CT scans I've had in the last ~5 years. They all come on a CD, with a software program loaded onto it with the scans to view it in. It would be cool to be able to 3d visualize it all
- Pigalowda 5y agoDon’t go through that much trouble! There’s an easier solution. You can download free radiology viewers RadiAnt (windows compatible) or Osirix (Mac compatible). Your imaging is in DICOM format probably and you can use Radiant to export all of your slices into .jpg if you want. You can also do 3D reconstructions of soft tissue, bone, lung, etc.
- lostlogin 5y agoHoros (Mac) is another - I think it’s the freeware version of Osirix. You can find InteleViewer if you hunt about as well (Mac and PC).
- dylan604 5y ago>Don’t go through that much trouble! You realize this is HN where readers pride themselves on the trouble that can be accomplished in a weekend. >There’s an easier solution. But what else is one to do at the weekend?
- spookthesunset 5y agoTry to turn it into an stl file, slice it and print it :-)
- dylan604 5y agoDo this with a couple of "perfect" pumpkin shapes. Create a way to 3D print these as a mold to make your own "pumpkins" to be carved without all of the mess and able to last longer through the season. No more petroleum jelly, no more soaking them in the tub.
- idiotsecant 5y ago>No more petroleum jelly, no more soaking them in the tub. What. I feel like I am missing out on a whole field of pumpkin science here that I was unaware of.
- dylan604 5y agoIt's a plant. Think of it as a cut flower. After cutting open a pumpkin, they are obviously no longer sealed. They start to dry out. You can rub petroleum jelly all over the carved sides to help slow down the drying out. You can also soak them in the tub, and they will pull in some of the water to help them come back into shape. There's all sort of things you can do to prolong things once they've been cut/carved/etc. My mom was a florist and designer. I've been in/around productions requiring things to be preserved so items can be kept around as long as possible. You just kind of pick up a thing or two
- Turing_Machine 5y agoThere are also various chemical solutions that you can put on the pumpkin to make it last longer. However those are not recommended if wildlife is around. Moose, in particular, love pumpkins. I suspect deer are the same.
- dylan604 5y agoSure the deer, but I don't want that stuff around me. Better living through chemistry is something I'm trying to avoid now that I can make my own choices about what goes in, on, or around me.
- jmkb 5y agopersonally I'm looking forward to "this gourd does not exist"
- wtallis 5y agoThe program in question (3D Slicer) is also one of those easier solutions. It can load DICOM files directly.
- QuercusMax 5y agoYou can get aeskulap on Linux. It's not anything that would be usable by a radiologist, but I've used it on occasion to look at some images.
- hprotagonist 5y agothere are many DICOM viewers available, ranging from the fairly horrible plugins for imageJ to very sophisticated things with maya or COMSOL or whatnot. OSIRX is often very good, though not free.
- azalemeth 5y agoHoros is the FOSS version of Osirix and based on the same original codebase, which lives on Github – c.f. https://horosproject.org/download-horos/ https://horosproject.org/download-horos/
- xvilka 5y agoSadly, it's MacOS-only. Would be nice to have something Qt or GTK-based.
- wazoox 5y agoThere are many free DICOM viewer in the Ubuntu/Debian/Pop_OS repositories. I don't remember which one I used, but at least some of them allow to visit your organs in 3D :)
- figomore 5y agoI recommend InVesalius. It’s in Flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/details/br.gov.cti.invesalius https://flathub.org/apps/details/br.gov.cti.invesalius)
- manucorporat 5y agoWe have been working on an open source tech that works in the browser and render 3D CTs and MRIs without installing any software, check it out: https://openview.health https://openview.health
- sleepy_keita 5y agoThat is really nice. Thanks for sharing!
- roywiggins 5y agofyi you've misspelled "HIPAA" on that page
- DaftDank 5y agoCool, thanks for the link.
- nick__m 5y agoWhen my wife when through invasive breast cancer some years ago¹, I got started with RadiAnt because it's easy to construct a nice looking3d reconstruction, but I quickly hit a ceiling what I was able to accomplish. With slicer I was able to produced compelling pictures to highlight the objects of interest by using custom color scales and transparency. For fun I also followed some tutorial on bone segregation for 3d printing, something that is clearly beyond the reach of RadiAnt. Still, I would recommend to learn the basics in RadiAnt by trying to see what is in the written radiologist report². You will have to learn quite a bit of arcane terminology but I found that process quite rewarding and strangely empowering. 1- 3 years after her last treatment she is still cancer free, I hope it stays that way... 2- Ask for a copy of the report when you get the DICOM DVD. If the scan was taken at a hospital they will probably redirect you to the medical archives and it assuredly won't be ready when you get the DVD but they can mail it to you.
- BadInformatics 5y agoYou're in luck, because (assuming the scans are in a compatible format), this is exactly what 3D Slicer was designed for.