Re: Medical scans to STL

From: Andy Christensen (andy@medicalmodeling.com)
Date: Mon Mar 22 1999 - 23:29:36 EET

Chris and Gary:

Just to throw 2 cents in here. Geomagic may be good for reverse engineering
projects and digitized data from laser scanning, cmm, etc., BUT CT scan data
is much different than these other "point cloud" type data formats. CT scans
do not produce point cloud data. They produce 2D grayscale slices that
contain data in image format for different densities. In order to get a 3D
object one must extract the pertinent data from each slice, stack the slices
and then interpolate between slices.

To convert serial section data from CT or MRI to STL you should look at
Materialise (http://www.materialise.com) and Image3 (http://www.image3.com).
These are the two most widely used packages for doing this type of work. We
utilize the Materialise package and can answer questions from a users point of
view if needed.

Hope this helps.

Andy

> Gary A. Fudge wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> You should take a look at our geomagic Wrap software. Wrap
> automatically creates polygonal surfaces (including .stl files) from
> point cloud data and is very easy to learn and use. You can download
> a free demo version from our web site at www.geomagic.com
>
> Please phone or email me direct if I can be of further assistance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Gary A. Fudge
> Sales Manager
> Raindrop Geomagic, Inc.
> www.geomagic.com
> garyf@geomagic.com
> (770) 619-9182
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Sutcliffe <c.j.sutcliffe@liverpool.ac.uk>
> To: rpml <rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi>
> Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 1:56 PM
> Subject: Medical scans to STL
>
> DEAR LIST
>
> I am looking for software which converts medical scan data
> to STL or CAD I would be grateful if the
> developers/distributors of such software would contact me as
> soon as possible.
>
> I would also appreciate the input of anyone with experience
> of such software. The software will be research based and
> so no commercial conflicts exist. Many thanks in advance.
>
> Dr. Chris. Sutcliffe
> Product Innovation and Development Centre
> Department of Engineering
> 3 Brownlow St.
> Liverpool L69 3GL
>
> (0151) 794 8022 Direct
> (0151) 794 8021 Secretary
> 01893 209 556 Bleeper
> EMail c.j.sutcliffe@liv.ac.uk 

-- 
Andy Christensen

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