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Features | Specifications | Applications | Availability


InSpace provides an extensive assortment of features for medical imaging volume visualization. InSpace is a totally interactive tool. You can change any setting within InSpace and instantly see the resultant image for true real-time imaging. Real-time imaging allows you to be in control of imaging process and produce superior results. InSpace's ease of use makes it perfect for the radiologist, clinician, and technologist.


Common syngo™ User Interface

InSpace features the syngo user interface style. You will feel comfortable with InSpace immediately. Smart mouse modes provide for easy manipulation of imaging parameters such as view orientation, window width-level, clip planes, and zoom factor.



Image Rendering Mode

InSpace can display the volume using a number of different methods. You can switch the imaging method on the fly. InSpace provides the highest quality image rendering.

Volume Rendering
Volume Rendering with Advanced Lighting (Only available with VolumePro option)
Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP)
Minimum Intensity Projection
Interactive Multiplanar Reconstruction (MPR)


View Layout

Many different view layouts are supported within InSpace: one view, two views, and four views. In addition, each view can be resized dynamically to allow a mixture of smaller views with larger views. You can load multiple data volumes and  use separate views to display multiple studies side-by-side.


Clip Planes

The removal of obscuring structures during 3D viewing of volume datasets is often necessary for optimal evaluation. InSpace provides clip planes to quickly and easily remove objects from the view. You can also use clip planes to interactively view a cut-plane in the volume similar to an MPR. However unlike a MPR, the cut-plane is displayed within the 3D view. The orientation of a clip plane can also be transferred to the standard MPR view providing for easy oblique MPR display.


Input Volume

You can display volume image data from many sources in InSpace: CT, MRI, and 3D Angio. Input volumes of up to 1600 slices at 512x512 matrix can be loaded and displayed with the VolumePro option. InSpace can display multiple volumes simultaneously in separate views (the number of volumes is limited only by the number of slices). With the optional VolumePro, the 3D images are calculated using the full 12-bit input dynamic range of the input data.


Volume Editing

Sooner or later you will want to display a dataset that requires the removal of complex structures from the view for optimal evaluation. The volume editing tool will allow you remove arbitrarily complex shapes from the view to get that optimal image. You simply draw polygonal shapes on the 3D image and InSpace will remove or keep everything inside or outside of the shape.


Measurement & Annotation

With InSpace you can make measurements of lengths and angles, annotate images with text comments and arrows. All annotation and measurement is filmed along with the image.


Presets

InSpace comes with a wide variety of presets that store the settings used to create the 3D images. InSpace has Real-time Preview of presets; when you browse a preset, the preview window will show the effect of applying that preset to your currently loaded volume dataset. You can create customized presets, and import/export presets to share with other users. Presets can store more than just window width and level; all imaging parameters can be saved in a preset allowing for highly customized capabilities. You can also link a preset to an imaging protocol series description; when a dataset with the series description is loaded the appropriate preset is automatically applied.


Ranges

When a set range of viewing angles are required for a viewing protocol you can use the Ranges window to quickly create those batch views. The range window lets you pick the starting and ending viewing orientation, the number of views and the spacing of the views. The resulting images can be filmed, output to a digital movie, or saved back into the database. Range macros are provided to save the range parameters for later use.


Output

You can document your InSpace session by filming images to any syngo compatible filming device. Images can be saved back into the image database and sent to other devices via DICOM or archived to CD-R. Images can be exported to external formats such as BMP and TIFF. Using InSpace you can create digital movies in AVI format that captures the true interactive nature of InSpace.


3D Angio Support

InSpace provides unprecedented integration when paired with a compatible Axiom Artis Angiography system, InSpace will display a virtual C-arm in the imaging window. InSpace can create a viewing orientation matching the current C-arm orientation (and stay oriented as the C-arm moves). The C-arm can also be moved to match the current InSpace viewing orientation.

 


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