OsiriX has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D Viewer (3D series with temporal dimension, for example: Cardiac-CT) and 5D Viewer (3D series with temporal and functional dimensions, for example: Cardiac-PET-CT). The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering modes: Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP). All these modes support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two different series (for example: PET-CT).
Osirix is at the same time a DICOM PACS workstation for medical imaging and an image processing software for medical research (radiology and nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D imaging, confocal microscopy and molecular imaging.
Osirix supports a complete plug-ins architecture that allows you to expand the capabilities of OsiriX for your personal needs! This plug-in architecture gives you access to the powerful Cocoa framework with an easy object-oriented and dynamic language: Objective-C.
A Wiki Manual is available.
Features:
DICOM File Support:
- Read and display all DICOM Files (mono-frame, multi-frames)
- Read and display the new MRI/CT multi-frame format (5200 group)
- JPEG Lossy, JPEG Lossless, JPEG2000, RLE
- Monochrome1, Monochrome2, RGB, YBR, Planar, Palettes, …
- Support custom (non-square) Pixel Aspect Ratio
8, 12, 16, 32 bits - Write \’SC\’ (Secondary Capture) DICOM Files from any 2D/3D reconstructions
- Read and display all DICOM Meta-Data
- Read AND Write DICOM CD/DVD (DICOMDIR support)
- Export DICOM Files to TIFF, JPEG, Quicktime, RAW, DICOM, PACS
DICOM Network Support:
- Store User (STORE-SCU, DICOM Send)
- Store Provider (STORE-SCP, DICOM Listener)
- C-FIND SCU/SCP, C-MOVE SCU/SCP : Query and Retrieve studies from/to a PACS workstation
Non-DICOM Files Support:
- LSM files from Zeiss (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
- BioRadPIC files (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
- TIFF (8, 12, 16, 32 bits), multi-pages
- ANALYZE (8, 12, 16, 32 bits)
- PNG, JPEG, PDF (multi-pages), Quicktime, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4
2D Viewer:
- Customizable Toolbars
- Bicubic Interpolation
- Thick Slab for multi-slices CT and MRI (Mean, MIP, Volume Rendering)
- ROIs: Polygons, Circles, Pencil, Rectangles, Point, …
- Multi-Buttons and Scroll-wheel mouses supported
- Custom CLUT (Color Look-Up Tables)
- Custom 3×3 and 5×5 Convolution Filters (Bone filters, …)
- 4D Viewer for Cardiac-CT and other temporal series
- Image Fusion for PET-CT exams with adjustable blending percentage
- Image subtraction for XA
- Plugins support for external functions
3D Post-Processing:
- MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) with Thick Slab (Mean, MIP, Volume Rendering)
- Curved-MPR
- MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection)
- Volume Rendering
- Surface Rendering
- Stereo Vision with Red/Blue glasses
- Export any 3D images to Quicktime, Quicktime VR, TIFF, JPEG
- All 3D viewers support \’Image Fusion\’ for PET-CT exams and \’4D mode\’ for Cardiac-CT.
Optimization:
- Universal application, compiled for Intel and PowerPC processors
- Altivec (Velocity Engine) enhanced
- G5 alignment (for best performance on G5 processors)
- Multi-threaded for multi-processors and dual-core processors support
- Asyncronous reading
- Based on the Altivec & Multi-Threaded vImage library
- OpenGL for 2D Viewer and all 3D Viewers
- Graphic board accelerated, with 3D texture mapping support
- Optimized version for 3D Volume Rendering boards by TeraRecon : VolumePRO VP1000 series
Expansion & Scientific Research:
- OsiriX supports a complete dynamic plugins architecture
- Access pixels directly in 32-bits float for B&W images or ARGB values for color images
- Create and manage windows
- Access the entire Cocoa framework
- Create and manage OpenGL views
- Faster than IDL, Easier than ImageJ
Based on Open-Source components:
- Cocoa (OpenStep, GNUStep, NextStep)
- VTK (Visualization Toolkit)
- ITK (Insight Toolkit)
- PixelMed (David Clunie)
- Papyrus 3.0 (Digital Imaging Unit)
- DICOM Offis
- OpenGL
- XML-Expat
- LibTIFF
- Jasper
- LibJPEG
Please, send any comments, bug reports and ideas to improve OsiriX!
- Full DICOM TLS (Transport Layer Security) support for network operations
- OsiriX Lite version (for CD/DVD burning) 14 MB versus instead of 150 MB
- Network functions are now grouped in the Network menu
- Encrypt DICOM CD/DVD with a password in zip forma
- WADO Server support (included in the Web HTTP Server, url: wado)
- New built-in web server, with HTTPS encryption and ZIP export
- Customize the built-in Web server
- Better views position in MPR and Ortho-MPR for Portrait Mode screens
- Support Presentation States (PR) SOPClassUID in database
- Q&R: Separate DICOM Auto Query Retrieve window
- Q&R: Save DICOM Auto Query Retrieve settings
- Q&R: Thread DICOM Association negotiation and C-Find
- Q&R: support for Referring Physician field
- Q&R: query last 6 or 12 hours
- Abort Incoming DICOM Processes (Store-SCU) function
- Add, Delete and Modify ROIs on shared database
- Support SUV computation for more than 24 hours
- Search by Patient ID on the built-in Web server
- WADO Client support for Q&R
- BullsEye plugin
- OpenOffice support (odt format) for Reports
- Export studies by email from the DB window
- Option to open PDF & DICOM PDF in Preview application
- Search in Logs, Export Logs in csv format
- Windows Tiling menu (2D Viewer) and contextual menu
- Crash Test preference to identify corrupted files on CD/DVD
- Compatible with Oviyam project (http://oviyam.raster.in/)
- This version is the last version to support PowerPC processors (G4 & G5 Macs)
- Continuously display the 3D cursor, if Control key and Shift key are pressed
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
- G4/G5/Intel processor (G5 or Intel processors highly recommended for 3D!)
- 1GB/2GB/4GB of RAM for 800/1500/3000 images