Tutorial 4

This tutorial will cover loading a DICOM directory and visualizing a static series.

1. Start Eidolon and then select from the menu "Import" -> "Dicom Directory"

2. Select the ''tutorial/DicomData'' directory and click "Choose"/"OK"

3. This will bring up the Choose DICOM Series dialog box. Select the single series that should show up and click OK.

4. Click on the loaded object and create a Timed Image Stack representation. This should appear like this:

6. The images will appear in the render window aligned in the correct orientations. Click on the representation to bring up its properties dialog.

7. Click the checkbox "Select Slice" to show only a single slice at a time. Move the Slice slider to select which slice is seen.

8. This representation is rendered as a series of 2D planes as defined by the DICOM data, however these images do form a stack so rendering as a volume is possible. Double-click on the current representation to toggle its visibility then create a new one of type Timed Image Stack Volume. This should appear like this:

9. This is very dark since there's a lot of low-intensity data. Click on the representation and move the spectrum's colour carets and transparency curves around to get different results, eg.: