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OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images (”.dcm” / “.DCM” extension) produced by medical equipment ( MRI , CT , PET , PET-CT ) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format).

It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image comunication and image file formats. It is able to receive images transferred by DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or medical imaging modality (STORE SCP - Service Class Provider, STORE SCU Service Class User, and Query/Retrieve).

It has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D Viewer (3D series with temporal dimension, for example: Cardiac- CT ) and 5D Viewer (3D series with temporal and functional dimensions, for example: Cardiac-PET- CT ). The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering modes, Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP). All these modes support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two different series (for example: PET- CT ). At the same time a DICOM PACS workstation for medical imaging and an image processing software for medical research (radiology and nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D imaging, confocal microscopy and molecular imaging. It supports a complete plug-ins architecture that allows you to expand the capabilities of OsiriX for our personal needs! This plug-in architecture gives us access to the powerful Cocoa framework with an easy object-oriented and dynamic language.

Some of the features of DICOM File Support are read and display all DICOM Files (mono-frame, multi-frames), read and display the new MRI / CT multi-frame format (5200 group), JPEG Lossy, JPEG Lossless, JPEG2000, RLE, Monochrome1, Monochrome2, RGB, YBR, Planar, Palettes, Support custom (non-square) Pixel Aspect Ratio, 8, 12, 16, 32 bits, Write ‘SC’ (Secondary Capture) DICOM Files from any 2D/3D reconstructions, Read and display all DICOM Meta-Data, Read AND Write DICOM CD/DVD (DICOMDIR support), Export DICOM Files to TIFF, JPEG, Quicktime, RAW, DICOM, PACS, Based on Open-Source components: Cocoa (OpenStep, GNUStep, NextStep), VTK (Visualization Toolkit), ITK (Insight Toolkit), PixelMed (David Clunie), Papyrus 3.0 (Digital Imaging Unit), DICOM Offices, OpenGL, XML-Expat, LibTIFF, Jasper, LibJPEG.

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