Voxel Meshing Module
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Objective:
- Develop an initial framework for integration of Meshing modules into the NA-MIC kit
Progress:
- Base code has been developed as an Execution Model for Slicer3
- Orientatation issues wrt Slicer3 and ITK coordinate systems have been determined
- Extraction of surfaces nodes has been implemented to view results in Slicer3
To Do:
- Source Code currently needs to be updated to support VTK 5.0 instead of VTK 5.1
- We can remove the need for the surface extraction since Slicer3 now supports the loading of unstructured grids.
Key Investigators:
- Iowa: Nicole Grosland, Vincent Magnotta, Ritesh Bafna
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Description: This program will convert an image into a hexahedral mesh using the voxels as the hexahedral elements. This is is typically done for only a portion of the image and thus a binary image from a segmentation may be used to define the region for meshing. Since these meshes may be fairly large the user is allowed to downsample the image by an integer value. Currently this must be odd.
This tool was developed as part of an NIH NA-MIC Collaboration Grant EB005973.
Usage:
VoxelMeshingModule --imagefilename Input image File Name --maskfilename Input mask File Name --abaqusfilename Output Abaqus Filename --vtkfilename Output mesh VTK filename --vtksurfacefilename Output mesh surface VTK filename (Hack required for slicer3) --resamplesize The image resample downsampling factor - Must be odd --meshindexoffset The mesh index offset for nodes and elements --poissonratio Poisson Ratio for the mesh --abaqustitle Abaqus title for generated mesh --numberofbins The number of histogram bins in the mesh --histogamlowerbound The lower bound for the mesh histogram --histogamupperbound The upper bound for the mesh histogram --histogambinfile Mesh material properties histogram bin filename
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