November 2008
The Archives
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11.20.08How to Adjust the 16-Bit CLUT (Color Look Up Table) Editor in OsiriX
There are three pull down menus that you may or may not have noticed before. The one that we are currently interested in is the CLUT - color look up table. While there are numerous presets that can be cycled through at your leisure, we are going to concentrate on the 16-bit CLUT Editor. All of the other presets are in an 8-bit style, and the 16-bit color selection allows for a little more control over the transparency and color selections within your data set.
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11.15.08Medical Illustrator David Ehlert
When did you first start using OsiriX?
I most likely started using Osirix in late 2006, but really only dabbling in it.
Who introduced you to it?
That would be fellow medical illustrator, Andrew Swift. Andrew and I have chatted back and forth via email showing sample projects we’re working on. Some of his Osirix samples simply blew me away. From there, I went to the Osirix web site, watched the tutorial videos, downloaded the software, joined the Osirix Yahoo Group and began tinkering with it during my off time.
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11.08.08Medical Illustrator John Daugherty
I believe I first stumbled across OsiriX on the web in ‘04 or ‘05 not long after it first came out. I didn’t do much with it until a year or so later when I attended a demonstration of OsiriX at RSNA in Chicago. After learning a little about OsiriX’s 3D visualization tools, and having access to a few datasets, I recognized that…
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11.03.08How to Export a QuickTime VR from a 3D Volume Rendering in OsiriX
For those working in 3D modeling and animation, the 3D Surface Rendering tool is appropriate. However, if you are working in a 2D program such as Photoshop or Illustrator, the 3D Volume Rendering tool allows you to navigate through the image in OsiriX to visualize the anatomical structures in relation to each other.
From a 3D Volume Render, you can export a QuickTime VR from a study so that…
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