3D Slicer

[http://www.slicer.org 3D Slicer] is a software program for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data. It is devloped as a collaboration between the MIT AI Lab and the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham & Women's Hospital. The 3D Slicer homepage is [http://www.slicer.org http://www.slicer.org].

MGH NMR Center Installation

Within the MGH NMR Center, 3D Slicer is already installed on the network for both the Linux and Mac OS (PowerPC and Intel) platforms. You start 3D Slicer v2.6, which is the current stable version, by typing:

slicer2

Notes:

A command named 'slicer' exists in the FSL toolset, and is completely unrelated to the 3D Slicer application, so remember not to confuse the two.
'slicer2' is a wrapper-script found in /usr/pubsw/bin, which starts the stable version 2.# of 3D Slicer for the platform you are using. Older and alpha versions of 3D Slicer are found in /usr/pubsw/packages/slicer. The one considered the most stable (and launched via 'slicer2') is found in /usr/pubsw/packages/slicer/current.
Soon, version 3 of 3D Slicer will become available. When this is available, this command will be used to start it:

slicer3

Download

Remember that you do not need to install 3D Slicer if you are connected to the NMR Center network (see above). If you want to install 3D Slicer on your non-networked computer, follow the 'Get the Software' link on the [http://www.slicer.org 3D Slicer home page]. Or, if you are feeling brave, you can go directly to the [http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/ 'official release' binary download site], or the http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Snapshot/ 'alpha release' binary download site], and get the tarball.

Work Flows

See the SlicerWorkFlows page.