3-D Surface Views

MIPAV provides the ability to view 3-D data sets a volume, instead of just as a collection of the two-dimensional data that the imaging equipment provided. MIPAV allows the researcher to view the volume from all directions.

A screenshot from a video of a knee data set in MIPAV with the bones comprising the knee extracted as surface meshes.

Particularly useful is combining the surface extraction features with the Volume views. Here, we display the surface extraction of the femur, tibia and patella. The images of hard tissues of the patient's knee were extracted from volumetric image data and are displayed with the entire data at the co-ordinate axes.

A video using the MIPAV 3-D surface viewer was made to show off this particular knee data set.