[GRASS-user] 3D Imaging from Medical JPEGs

[Carl Brown]

Is it possible to construct 3D images using GRASS from jpeg sources?

CT scans and MRI scans are examples. The images are lossless grayscale jpeg 
format. (There is a standard called DICOM which would probably be the target 
of any serious work) Each image represents a "slice" with a known position, 
resolution and orientation. A number of slices are spaced at a known 
incremental spacing in the third dimension. It looks like a perfectly good 3D 
data source to me!

In simple terms, all that needs to be done to get started is to stack the 
slices into a 3D raster map, so as to be able to render them using NVIZ, for 
example, or for any other uses that anyone might devise for any other 
existing GRASS functionality.

Is anyone playing with this type of application?

-- 
Carl Brown
Whitefield, NH USA