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Read about the OsiriX ADC success story, what it does and how the authors managed to integrate so many key Apple technologies into a free application.
DESCRIPTION
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. 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).
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). 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).
Osirix is 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.
Osirix supports a complete plug-ins architecture that allows you to expand the capabilities of OsiriX for your personal needs! This plug-in architecture gives you access to the powerful Cocoa framework with an easy object-oriented and dynamic language: Objective-C.
A Wiki Manual is available.
Features:
DICOM File Support:
- 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
DICOM Network Support:
- Store User (STORE-SCU, DICOM Send)
- Store Provider (STORE-SCP, DICOM Listener)
- C-FIND SCU/SCP, C-MOVE SCU/SCP : Query and Retrieve studies from/to a PACS workstation
Non-DICOM Files Support:
- LSM files from Zeiss (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
- BioRadPIC files (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
- TIFF (8, 12, 16, 32 bits), multi-pages
- ANALYZE (8, 12, 16, 32 bits)
- PNG, JPEG, PDF (multi-pages), Quicktime, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4
2D Viewer:
- Customizable Toolbars
- Bicubic Interpolation
- Thick Slab for multi-slices CT and MRI (Mean, MIP, Volume Rendering)
- ROIs: Polygons, Circles, Pencil, Rectangles, Point, ...
- Multi-Buttons and Scroll-wheel mouses supported
- Custom CLUT (Color Look-Up Tables)
- Custom 3x3 and 5x5 Convolution Filters (Bone filters, ...)
- 4D Viewer for Cardiac-CT and other temporal series
- Image Fusion for PET-CT exams with adjustable blending percentage
- Image subtraction for XA
- Plugins support for external functions
3D Post-Processing:
- MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) with Thick Slab (Mean, MIP, Volume Rendering)
- Curved-MPR
- MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection)
- Volume Rendering
- Surface Rendering
- Stereo Vision with Red/Blue glasses
- Export any 3D images to Quicktime, Quicktime VR, TIFF, JPEG
- All 3D viewers support 'Image Fusion' for PET-CT exams and '4D mode' for Cardiac-CT.
Optimization:
- Universal application, compiled for Intel and PowerPC processors
- Altivec (Velocity Engine) enhanced
- G5 alignment (for best performance on G5 processors)
- Multi-threaded for multi-processors and dual-core processors support
- Asyncronous reading
- Based on the Altivec & Multi-Threaded vImage library
- OpenGL for 2D Viewer and all 3D Viewers
- Graphic board accelerated, with 3D texture mapping support
- Optimized version for 3D Volume Rendering boards by TeraRecon : VolumePRO VP1000 series
Expansion & Scientific Research:
- OsiriX supports a complete dynamic plugins architecture
- Access pixels directly in 32-bits float for B&W images or ARGB values for color images
- Create and manage windows
- Access the entire Cocoa framework
- Create and manage OpenGL views
- Faster than IDL, Easier than ImageJ
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 Offis
- OpenGL
- XML-Expat
- LibTIFF
- Jasper
- LibJPEG
Please, send any comments, bug reports and ideas to improve OsiriX!
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.6.1:
Certified for Snow Leopard compatibility (MacOS 10.6)
- New 'AutoCropping Algorithm' technology in 3D VR/MIP -> Between 20% to 100% faster rendering speed
- minIP for 3D MPR
- CLIGET SCU/SCP (Dynamic IP address DICOM transfers)
- Settings for compression per modality
- JP2000 compression support, with quality level option
- Support for OpenJPEG JPEG2000 encoding
- OpenJPEG is 2.2x times faster : OpenJPEG is now faster than JasperLib
- Better compression/decompression performances when receiving DICOM images
- Soundex (search on pronunciation, instead of orthography) when searching for patient names
- Series comments/state displayed in Web Server
- Display Same Patient with gray color in Database window
- Better printing resolution for large images
- Default DB can receive images in background if another DB is selected
- Better DICOM CD/DVD reading
- Apply a route rule on database selection (contextual menu)
- Save and load DICOM printers list
- Multiple bugs corrections
- Much better support for DICOM Encapsulated PDF
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- G4/G5/Intel processor (G5 or Intel processors highly recommended for 3D!)
- 1GB/2GB/4GB of RAM for 800/1500/3000 images
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| OsiriX User Reviews (20 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 15 2009 |
AYCANDIGITAL In most industry nations the use of software for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery is considered as a Medical device. For example: in terms of classification, OsiriX is a Class II Medical device in the European Union and the USA. aycan Digitalsysteme GmbH offers an FDA-cleared and CE-labeled version of OsiriX as Medical device Class II with support and comprehensive documentation. Differences between the free version of OsiriX:    * FDA clearance and CE Mark (medical device class ll)    * 33% faster DICOM send    * 20% faster DICOM Query Retrieve    * Hotline support - immediate live customer service and support    * Various Training options    * Comprehensive user manual    * Integration in current PACS and RIS    * improved stability    * improved data protection    * configuration support with new updates    * improved workflow when segmenting    * Filmcomposer with WISIWYG functionality http://www.aycan.de
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| Aug 15 2009 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN You stated "Differences between the free version of OsiriX". Differences between free OsiriX and what?
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| Aug 15 2009 |
AYCANDIGITAL Difference between the free version of OsiriX and the CE-labeled / FDA-cleared OsiriX PRO.
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| Aug 15 2009 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Thank you for making it very clear. Have a good day.
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 | May 7 2009 |
MISHA Works great, no complaints. :)
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| Feb 22 2008 |
MAGOSILVAN I'm not a physician, but only a cardiopathic and I must say it's always a great emotion for me to look over my angioplastic intervention. Really great! At the hospital they gave me a copy of the CD, but they said it was not possible to see with a normal PC. Thanks to the developer.
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| Aug 24 2007 |
DRAW Best product for DICOM - international version available | |
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| Jul 9 2006 |
HANGON Much better and stable than our Kodak or Fuji PACS clients at work..... too bad big hospitals are afraid of free software.
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| Feb 12 2006 |
FJWELTE Truly amazing software. Works better than our current PACS and it's free. Why aren't all radiologists using Macs???
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| Mar 19 2005 |
SERGILLO Simply wonderful. Easy 3d browsing... Exellent work!!!
(Version 1.6.1) | |
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| Feb 16 2005 |
and... THANX FOR YOUR WORK AND SUPPORT TO MAC-MED COMMUNITY! greetings from Chile
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| Feb 16 2005 |
RONALD PRICE I am not a doctor and I don't play one on TV. I don't know jack about any of the stuff this app does. I just like looking at the stuff inside people and this app lets me do it without making a mess. | |
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| Feb 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This is an awesome and powerful tool for the Radiologist and Technologist. The money you save on software can be used to buy more powerful hardware, giving the end user a better tool for the same money. 1 Don't skimp on memory. DICOM files are large and need room to run. If time is money, load up on memory. 2 Buy the most CPU you can afford. 3 Get a decent Garphics Card. Although Osirix will run on the base cards Apple ships you will be far happier with a 128MB or better card. 4 Get the Jog/Shuttle imput device. Osirix supports it and makes image manipulation easier.
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