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The Minimize Window Size option allows you to save memory by making projection windows as small as possible given the size of the volume and the axis of rotation. If this box is not checked, projection windows for a given set of slices will be the same size regardless of the axis of rotation (convenient for animation sequences using multiple axes of rotation).

Select Nearest Point projection to produce an image of the surfaces visible from the current viewing angle. At each point in the projection plane, a ray passes normal to the plane through the volume. The value of the nearest non transparent point which the ray encounters is stored in the projection image. Brightest Point projection examines points along the rays, projecting the brightest point encountered along each ray. This will display the brightest objects, such as bone in a CT (computed tomographic) study. Mean Value projection, a modification of brightest-point projection, sums the values of all transparent points along each ray and projects their mean value. It produces images with softer edges and lower contrast, but can be useful when attempting to visualize objects contained within a structure of greater brightness (e.g. a skull).


Steve Barrett     November 2014


S.D.Barrett @ liv.ac.uk