


All these modes support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two different series (for example: PET-CT). The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering modes: Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP). OsiriX 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). OsiriX 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 is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image comunication and image file formats.

It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. ) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). Will continue to use this as no real alternative on the mac sad to see the spirit of opensource software no longer inhabits this one.OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images (".dcm" / ".DCM" extension) produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT. And what's worse is practically every screen is sprinkled with extremely visible and ugly reminders that you can buy the 64 bit plugin or that this 'is not for medical use', i guess implying that you could splash out and buy the version for medical use (not to nitpick here, but there is no non-medical use for this perhaps it should be changed to 'diagnostic use' instead?) It seems to take twice as long to volume render CTs (or maybe that's my subjective impression) even though i have a faster mac.

With every revision, the free version is seems to be getting slower. Over the years i have on and off purchased the plugin, the handbook, the iphone and then the ipad version, but this is getting annoying now. but (and it's sadly an increasingly large but), the free version is increasingly plagued by reminders you can buy the 64 bit plugin and the paid version.
