Medical 3D

The LEADTOOLS Medical 3D SDK provides capabilities to allow rendering and viewing a series of two-dimensional medical images in a three-dimensional space.  A three-dimensisonal view is easier to analyze than the component two-dimensional images. Users can render the object in multiple ways and can select from a wide range of tools that make it easier to view, handle and manipulate 3D objects.

The LEADTOOLS Medical 3D .NET Class Libary is for developers who need to create applications that are required to display the three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional device.  The LEADTOOLS Medical 3D toolkit allows multiple 2D projection techniques (e.g. MPR, VRT, MIP, SSD etc.). It allows rendering different volume types with options including planes, clipping, slab, scaling, zooming, full camera control, thresholding and image processing.

LEADTOOLS Medical 3D .NET Class Library offers programmers the ability to create 3D applications fast and without having to rely on an advanced knowledge of the 3D field. The SDK excels in its ease of use. A developer will have to write minimal lines of source code to achieve implement 3D functionality in their own applications. As a result, it can be used effectively by both beginner and advanced developers.   

The LEADTOOLS Medical 3D Toolkit can be used to develop 3D applications that create three-dimensional volumes from two-dimensional cross-sections.  

Some examples of common applications are:

• High-end medical diagnostic workstations

• Light-weight viewers that are distributed on a CD with patient images

• Medical applications integrating the 3D control to a medical viewer

• 3D web applications

• 3D image processing applications

• 3D editing tools

• Generic 3D applications

Key Features

The following are features included in the LEADTOOLS Medical 3D toolkit:

• Rendering the object using 5 different types of volume rendering techniques:

• MIP - Maximum Intensity Projection

• MinIP - Minimum Intensity Projection

• VRT - Volume Rendering Technique

• MPR - Multiplanar Reformations

• SSD - Shade Surface Display

• Full integration with the LEADTOOLS Medical Viewer

• The ability to draw different oblique planes when rendering using the MPR technique. You can add up to 4 planes

• Compatibility checker utility that examines the available video card and compares it to the minimum requirements

• A 3D control that handles complicated tasks for You

• The ability to draw tags and rulers on the 3D control

•  Actions that can be used to manipulate the 3D object:

• Window level

• Pan

• Rotate

• Rotate plane

• Move plane

• Move camera

• Rotate camera

• Scale

• Zoom-Camera

• A clipping plane feature which allows you to clip parts of the 3D volume, whether it is an orthogonal or oblique clipping. You can use up to 6 clipping planes.

• Memory efficient loading and saving using the Video card

• A Slab feature that allows you to render a portion of the 3D object. This feature is also integrated into the Medical Viewer control.

• For very large input objects the quality of the image can be adjusted to increase speed.

• The ability to manipulate the 3D object. For example, changing the scale of the image in one or all directions, translating and rotating the object. Moving and rotating the plane or the clipping planes using a variety of techniques.

• The ability to invert the volumes colors.

• The ability to load any image format of the 150+ file formats supported by LEADTOOLS.

• The ability to customize the look of the 3D project by changing features, like the color of the boundaries, the boundary box, the intersection line, the background the color and  the resolution used when rendering a 3D object.

• A cross hair feature for the different plane views.

• Ability to do editing on the 3d object such as thresholding or any other image processing by accessing the RasterImage class used to render the 3D object.

• Multiple camera views

• Dynamic rotation (rotate using the Z axes)

• Orientation cube that can be located dynamically

• Save and load object mesh

• Save and load object status

• Save and load objects data

• A MedicalViewer method used to automatically sort the images and distinguish between the different series and localizers

• Internally switch between various algorithms to find the most suitable for your application

• The ability to change the volume projection method

• Near and far clipping plane support

• Support for single and double oblique cut planes that can be performed on a stack in the medical viewer cell to generate the MIP slab

Supported Platforms

Medical 3D .NET