I’ve been working on a project that reads industry standard MRI data (dicom and nifti) and renders it with a custom voxel shader. My brother recently had some MRI scans, so I thought it would be interesting to see how they came out. These are some renders of my brother’s brain, a few months after surgery.
I have some more (older) images here, if you don’t mind the background info about my brother and a picture of a pretty gnarly scar from brain surgery: http://imgur.com/a/S61YJ
And here’s a pretty badly framed video that I threw together in a hurry: AaronSecondMRI - YouTube
Hey thanks! If it’s of interest, this blog article was particularly inspiring for the rendering aspects: Post Page. I used ITK to read DICOM/Nifti files and to resample the volume.
I’ll just shamelessly plug my own raymarching project here. Recently released it as a plugin, feel free to try it out. Currently, you will have to convert DICOMs to MHD and then use those, but that will hopefully change soon.