Simplified generation of biomedical 3D surface model data for embedding into 3D portable document format (PDF) files for publication and education.

ABSTRACT: The usefulness of the 3D Portable Document Format (PDF) for clinical, educational, and research purposes has recently been shown. However, the lack of a simple tool for converting biomedical data into the model data in the necessary Universal 3D (U3D) file format is a drawback for the broad acceptance of this new technology. A new module for the image processing and rapid prototyping framework MeVisLab does not only provide a platform-independent possibility to create surface meshes out of biomedical/DICOM and other data and to export them into U3D--it also lets the user add meta data to these meshes to predefine colors and names that can be processed by a PDF authoring software while generating 3D PDF files. Furthermore, the source code of the respective module is available and well docum

SUBMITTER: Newe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3829830 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature