OsiriX is provided free of charge under the GNU open-source licensing agreement at. This ensures that all new developments in image processing that could emerge from other academic institutions using these libraries can be directly ported to the OsiriX program. In addition to zooming, panning, and rotation, OsiriX mobile allows traditional windowing and leveling, calibrated distance measurement, oval Region of Interest (ROI) measurements of area and density/signal intensity, and key image capture.5These advantages are the result of using DICOM images as opposed to JPEG or PNG images. The processing and image rendering tools of the software are based on the open-source libraries ITK and VTK. OsiriX is not limited to medical viewer formats such as CT or MR, it can also view images saved as jpg, tiff, mov, NIfTI, and much more.
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It is an easy to use application, and easy to learn how to use as well. The program can easily be adapted for very specific tasks that require a limited number of functions, by adding and removing tools from the program's toolbar and avoiding an overwhelming number of unnecessary tools and functions. OsiriX is an open source DICOM viewing software developed for Mac computers. An interactive jog-wheel device widely used in the video and movie industry was implemented to allow users to navigate in the different dimensions of an image set much faster than with a traditional mouse or on-screen cursors and sliders.
In the design of the software special attention was given to adapt the user interface to the specific and complex tasks of navigating through large sets of image data.
It also benefits from the extremely fast and optimized 3D graphic capabilities of the OpenGL graphic standard widely used for computer games optimized for taking advantage of any hardware graphic accelerator boards available. The software is developed in Objective-C on a Macintosh platform under the MacOS X operating system using the GNUstep development environment.
A multidimensional image navigation and display software was designed for display and interpretation of large sets of multidimensional and multimodality images such as combined PET-CT studies.