3.1. View Images

For creating a volume reconstruction, series that meet the following criteria must be used:

series modality: CT, MR, PT, SC, XA, or MG;

the series contains more than 2 slices in parallel planes;

the distance between slices is not equal to zero;

the following tag values are speciﬁed for the images: SamplesPerPixel = 1, BitsAllocated = 8 or 16;

the series is stored in the local storage.

To open a study in the volume reconstruction window:

Load the studies to the DICOM Viewer.
Select the study from the study panel.
Click the Volume Reconstruction button on the toolbar. To select the tab location (in the current window, in a separate window, or in the full screen mode), click on the arrow on the button. To open the volume reconstruction window in a new tab in the current window, click on the button. This process may take some time.

When building a volume reconstruction, the DICOM Viewer skips corrupted images in the series whose data cannot be read. A warning dialog box is displayed.

Fig. 3.1 illustrates the volume reconstruction window.

The volume reconstruction of tissues is located on the left side of the screen. The right side of the screen displays the toolbar with the volume edit tools and the windows for viewing the axial, frontal and sagittal sections. You can work with the sections in the 3D cursor mode described in Section 5.5.1.

The conﬁguration of the elements displayed on the toolbar of the current tab is described in detail in Section 1.4.1.

To move the cursor in MPR reconstruction windows, to move the cursor to a point on the model, activate the Select model point tool and click the mouse button to select the desired point. To deactivate the tool, click the button again. For details on setting and operating the Select model point tool, see in Section 3.6.

The tool is also available in the Volume section of the main menu.