Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Creating videos of anatomical images

If you have a 3D anatomical image (dicoms) of you brain, here's a really easy way to make it into a movie. Thought this would be a fancier thing to send to participants as opposed to the boring fslview screenshot :). Information courtesy of Sylvia Morelli:

1. Download this program and install on your computer
2. Open up Osirix. Import all the dicoms into Osirix.
3.  Click on the name of the patient/participant.
4.  In the top panel, there is a button called “Orientation” with the three views of the brain. You can click on whichever view you want.  I generally like saggital.
5. Then, go to file —> “Export to movie” or there is a button that says “Movie Export” in the top right hand side of the toolbar.
6. You can do this for each Orientation and create three different movies.  

There's also some fancy 3D rendering stuff that I haven't had a chance to check out - maybe I'll update this blogpost when I do! Have fun!