Fovia Inc., has developed High Definition Volume Rendering^®, a software-only technique that delivers high quality DICOM data visualization. The company's volume rendering technology has interactive image quality, better memory utilization and far lower computational costs than other solutions. The performance improvements in Fovia's HDVR^™ engine stem from proprietary, adaptive algorithms that provide interactive supersampling on Mac Pro systems without using specialized hardware or video cards.

In this 45-minute presentation, Dr. Geoffrey D. Rubin, takes you through the basic installation, set-up and use of Fovia's HDVR^™ engine. Viewers will be able follow along with their own case studies, at their own pace, using their own Mac Pro.

Presenters:

• Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D., Professor and Chief of Cardiovascular Imaging.
  Department of Radiology. Stanford University Medical Center.
• Afshad Mistri, Medical Marketing Manager, Apple Inc.

Register for this free, on-demand online seminar and learn:

Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Fovia's Rendering Engine

• Introductions
• Objectives of the training video
• Tutorial on how to use the software and the graphical user interface
• How to load DICOM data and launch Fovia's plug-in
• Demonstration of datasets to show ease of use
• Recommended Apple hardware to use Fovia's plug in
  -Mac Pro with minimum 8-cores and 4GB memory
  -See Fovia's web site for latest information. www.fovia.com
• Screen layout options
• Different rendering modes
• Orientation options
• Measurements - distance and angle

Chapter 2 - Transfer Functions

• Use of transfer functions and histograms
• Adjust opacity and color values
• Toggle ranges
• Toggle lighting per range
• Adding and removing points
• Creating and saving templates
• Saving transfer function states, style and style/location

Chapter 3 - Cropping and Cutting Tools

• Enable oblique cut planes
• How to set a cut plane
• Turning on/off front & rear clipping planes
• Lock cut plane to object, creating a slab
• Removing the table
• Slab properties: setting thickness of the slab
• Free hand cut
• Turning voxels on and off
• Setting a second transfer function
• Cut depth (surface, layer, whole volume)
• Selecting, subtracting, adding, inverting, undoing, clearing
• Lighting parameters
• Adjust light sources
• Cast shadows

Chapter 4 - Creating Images and Movies

• Annotations
• Creating and saving images
• Creating Quick Time movies
• CT colonography
• Perspective rendering
• Auto navigation, moving forward and backward, orbit mode
• Setting user preferences
• Quality / FPS speed balancing
• Orientation cube
• 4D
• Stereoscopic imaging
• Fusion