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Mimics rendering from CT. |
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| Developed by | Materialise NV |
| Website | Mimics homepage |
Mimics is an image processing software package for 3-dimensional design and modeling, commercially developed by Materialise NV. A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of Materialise NV is a leading software provider for handling triangulated rapid prototyping models and running rapid prototyping machines such as Stereolithography (SLA machines A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages In mathematics the dimension of a Space is roughly defined as the minimum number of Coordinates needed to specify every point within it Materialise NV is a leading software provider for handling triangulated rapid prototyping models and running rapid prototyping machines such as Stereolithography (SLA machines [1] Mimics generates and modifies surface 3D models from stacked medical images such as Computed Tomography (CT), Confocal Microscopy, Micro CT, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) through image segmentation done in the STL format. Computed tomography (CT is a Medical imaging method employing Tomography. Confocal microscopy is an optical imaging technique used to increase Micrograph contrast and/or to Reconstruct three-dimensional Images by Microtomography, like Tomography, uses x-rays to create cross-sections of a 3D-object that later can be used to recreate In Computer vision, segmentation refers to the process of partitioning a Digital image into multiple Regions ( sets of Pixels. STL is a file format native to the Stereolithography CAD software created by 3D Systems. Image formats such as: VFF (Sun TAAC), Raw, BMP, TIFF, DICOM, and JPEG formats can be imported, output formats include: IGES, STL, VRML, PLY, INP, OUT, NAS, and MSH. A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a Digital camera or Image scanner. The BMP file format, sometimes called bitmap or DIB file format (for device-independent bitmap) is an Image file format used to store D igital I maging and Co mmunications in M edicine ( DICOM) is a standard for handling storing printing and transmitting information in Medical The Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES (pronounced eye-jess) defines a neutral data format that allows the digital exchange of information among Computer-aided STL is a file format native to the Stereolithography CAD software created by 3D Systems. VRML ( Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pronounced vermal or by its initials originally — before 1995 — known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language PLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format. The current application is version 11. 11, it supports Windows Vista x64, Vista x32, XP x64 and XP x32.
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Mimics is a platform to bridge stacked image data to a variety of different medical/engineering applications:
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Image import from CT (DICOM) |
Image segmentation |
3D model rendering |