[GRASS-user] 3D Imaging from Medical JPEGs

[Wolfgang]

Carl Brown wrote:
> 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?
> 

you won't find many functionality for the reconstruction of 3D elements 
from your images in grass. perhaps you should have a look at
VTK http://www.vtk.org/
ITK http://www.itk.org/
Paraview http://www.paraview.org

regards
Wolfgang