BioImage is a SCIRun PowerApp for visualizing regular, three dimensional scalar volumes such as CT and MRI data. In addition to 2D and 3D visualization tools, BioImage provides a number of dynamic filters, such as re-sampling and cropping. Dynamic filters are used to emphasize the features of a dataset most important to the user. Dynamic filters can be applied at any time and in any order and can be easily undone.

BioImage offers 2D visualization of three standard planes: axial, sagittal, and coronal. The 2D views allow the user to quickly investigate a volume slice by slice or via a maximum intensity projection. The 2D views provide zooming and translation capabilities. Width and level parameters can be used isolate a range of values for display.

BioImage provides a powerful volume rendering tool that allows the user to interactively visualize an area of interest by assigning a color to a range of values in the volume.

In this tutorial the user will:

This tutorial provides a simple example of a BioImage session. See Part II, “Reference” for information on all of BioImage's capabilities.