December 2000

VolView 1.2 Released

Kitware announced today the release of VolView 1.2, a significant upgrade to the previous VolView 1.1. VolView is a volume rendering system that enables researchers to visualize data from a variety of imaging modalities including CT, MRI, fMRI, and confocal microscopy. VolView is designed for ease of use, performance, and flexibility at a modest entry price.

VolView interfaces to a variety of hardware and software systems, including accelerated OpenGL texturing, the RTViz VolumePro 500 volume rendering engine, and multi-threaded parallel rendering support. VolView also supports a variety of data file formats. This includes standard volume formats such as Analyze, slc, vox, vtk; image formats such as bitmap, pnm, and tiff; basic DICOM; and raw image and volume formats. Other features include maximum intensity projection; alpha compositing; transfer function and material editors; specular and diffuse illumination; cropping and cut plane tools; orthogonal and oblique reformat views; image window, level, pan, and zoom; image lightbox with 2x2, 3x2, or 3x3 layout; query values and measure images; isosurface tool for creating and saving geometry; and an animation tool for creating AVI files.

VolView 1.2 is available for free download a 30-day trial applicationperiod.

Kitware, Inc. is a small, privately held company offering consulting, products, and services in the areas of 3D graphics, visualization, image processing, and volume rendering. Kitware provides support and training for the widely used Visualization Toolkit system. Kitware is also developing other open source and proprietary software including the National Library of Medicine Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit. Kitware is located in the Tech Valley region of New York State.