FusionViewer

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Release Name: 1.0.alpha

Notes:
FusionViewer 1.0.alpha Release Note
February 26, 2007

We are pleased to announce the first release, FusionViewer 1.0.alpha. 

FusionViewer is an open source and multi-platform medical image display package designed to improve the physician's ability to interpret the results of combined positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) studies. The effective display of the fused PET/CT data permits easy viewing of the anatomical information provided by the CT images while simultaneously displaying the functional data provided by PET.

FusionViewer 1.0.alpha Key Features:

•Visualization and quantification of both 2D and 3Dimage data
•Three orthogonal displays: axial, sagittal, and coronal
•Three fusion display modes: alpha blend, checkerboard, and split window
•Fast switching between different display modes.
•Adjustable opacity of the background and foreground images
•Size adjustment of checkerboard grid and split window
•Cross referenced cursor position through all views
•Keyboard entered cursor crosshair position in either physical coordinates (mm) or pixel coordinates
•Control tools of data viewing: navigate, zoom, and pan
•Snapshot of image panel directly copied to clipboard
•Color map effects: grayscale, hot metal, jet, red temperature, red, green, blue, and inverted effect
•Window / level control of display 
•Measurement tools: rectangle ROI measurement, and line measurement
•Supported data format: MetaIO, Dicom (via a converter), JPEG, TIFF, PNG, Interfile and Analyze
•Image Statistics: mean, standard deviation, pixel count, and line length
•Line measurement profile plotting
•Platforms supported: Windows XP, and Mac OS 10.4
Download FusionViewer 1.0.alpha

Please visit http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162712 for a list of ftp sites holding release 1.0.alpha of FusionViewer.
Windows XP and Mac OS 10.4 have precompiled versions.

Terms of use

FusionViewer is released under the GNU General Public License. Its copyright is held by the Insightful Cooperation. We promote the use of FusionViewer for educational and research purposes. If you use any of these codes in a commercial application, you must contact us to obtain permission.

Install and use FusionViewer 1.0.alpha

•Mac OS users
  To install FusionViewer, you decompress and untar the downloaded file. Drag and drop the application to your local disk. And run it by double clicking the application icon.

•Windows users
  To install FusionViewer, you unzip the downloaded file. Drag and drop the FusionViewer folder to your local disk. And run the application by double clicking FusionViewer.jar.
For more information, please read FusionViewer User's Guide (http://fusionviewer.sourceforge.net/docs/FusionViewerUsersGuide.pdf)

Participate in FusionViewer Project

Because FusionViewer is an open-source system, you can participate. If you'd like to become involved, please visit our developer's page at http://fusionviewer.sourceforge.net/developerinfo.html. Here are the following steps that you might consider.
1Read the FusionViewer Developer's Guide (http://fusionviewer.sourceforge.net/docs/FusionViewerDevelopersGuide.pdf). 
2As this document suggests, join the FusionViewer mailing list.
3Obtain access to the CVS repository (read-only, anonymous access), and obtain the distribution using the following procedures.
4Contribute code or fix bugs by mailing code to the list or contacting a developer directly.
5Once you demonstrate your abilities, obtain read-write access to the CVS repository. Access can be obtained by following the procedures described in the FusionViewer Developer's Guide.
Resources

A number of resources are available to learn more about FusionViewer.

•The FusionViewer webpage is located at http://fusionviewer.sourceforge.net/
•FusionViewer SourceForge homepage is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fusionviewer
•The definitive guide to FusionViewer is available from FusionViewer User's Guide.
•Developers, or users interested in learning more, should visit our developer's page at http://fusionviewer.sourceforge.net/developerinfo.html and read the document FusionViewer Developer's Guide. 
Demos

A good way to learn about FusionViewer is to see how it is used. You can download the Mac OS or Windows demos from our homepage http://fusionviewer.sourceforge.net/download.html#demo

Bug Reports

Please submit bugs to http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=162712&atid=824874 



Changes:
Add an executable file for Windows release.