CT/MRI
Visualization

STL
Exporting

FEA/CFD
Analysis

Mimics

STL + Module

FEA Module

Mimics - CT/MRI Processing & Visualization)

Description

Materialise's Interactive Medical Image Control System (MIMICS) is an interactive tool for the visualization and segmentation of CT images as well as MRI images and 3D rendering of objects.  MIMICS is a general purpose segmentation program for gray value images and enables the surgeon or the radiologist to control and correct the segmentation of CT-scans and MRI-scans.

Thresholding:
Thresholding is the first action performed to create a segmentation mask. The boundaries of the region of interest in that range are the lower and upper threshold value. All pixels with a grey value in that range will be highlighted in a mask.

Region Growing:
Region growing will eliminate noise and separate structures that are not connected.

Editing (Draw, Erase, Local Threshold):
Manual editing functions make it possible to draw, erase or restore parts of images with a local threshold value.

Dynamic Region Growing:
Dynamic region growing segments an object based on the connectivity of grey values in a certain grey value range which allows for easy segmentation of tendons and nerves in CT images.

Morphology Operations:
Morphology operations act on the 'form' of a segmentation mask (Erode, Dilate, Open and Close). These functions remove or add pixels from the source mask and copy the results to a target mask.
Boolean Operations:
Boolean operations allow you to make different combinations of two segmentation masks (Subtraction, Union and Intersection). .

Cavity Fill:
Cavity Fill fills the internal gaps of a selected mask and copies the result to a new mask. .

Cavity Fill from Polylines:
Cavity Fill from Polylines creates a segmentation mask, starting from a polyline set. .

Visualisation:
Mimics divides the screen into three views: the original axial view of the image, and resliced data making up the coronal and sagittal views. Mimics includes several visualisation functions such as contrast enhancement, panning, zooming and rotating of calculated 3D images. Colour scales are used to enhance small differences in the soft tissue or the bone.

3D Rendering and 3D information:
Mimics provides a flexible interface for quickly calculating a 3D model of the region of interest. Therefore you can set parameters for resolution and filtering. Information about height, width, volume, surface, etc. is available for every 3D model.

Reslicing:
On-line reslicing allows you to display cross-sectional and parallel images that are orthogonal and along a user-drawn curve in the axial view.  The export resliced project tool has an easy to use interface that allows you to export a resliced Mimics projects along a user-drawn line.

Measurements:
With Mimics, you can perform point-to-point measurements on both the 2D slices and the 3D reconstructions.

Density measurements:
Perform density measurements in an ellipse or rectangle: area, mean, grey value and standard deviation are displayed. All measurements are saved in the project file and are listed in the Project Management.

Reporting:
The enhanced Print function allows you to print a complete report with general project information, 3D views and all axial and resliced images.

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Mimics - FEA Module (Analysis)

The Mimics FEA Module enables you to link from scanned images to Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics by exporting the files in the appropriate file format. You can calculate 3D objects based on the scanned images and prepare these surface meshes for Finite Element Analysis purposes. The Remesher in the FEA Module assures that you'll end up with the most optimal input for that FEA package. Materials can be assigned to volumetric meshes, based on the Hounsfield Units in the scanned images.

Wide range of quality measurement parameters
Mimics Remesher provides 14 of the most common quality inspection parameters. To facilitate the subsequent FE analysis you want to perform, you can choose the most suitable method for calculating triangle quality.

Easy automatic remeshing
 The software searches for all triangles whose quality is below the indicated level and transform them to triangles with a better shape.

Manual remeshing
In some cases, a few triangles with a shape inferior to the required quality level may remain after automatic remeshing. The Remesher offers a unique toolbox to reshape those triangles manually.

Increased reliability and accuracy of FE analyses
The Mimics Remesher is a highly automated interface with FEA packages. It significantly increases the reliability and accuracy of FEA results on STL models. With the Remesher you can optimise the file and deliver good meshes that will run in the FEA software.

Reduced calculation times
Calculation times for running a sub-optimal mesh can be very lengthy. The optimised meshes generated by the Remesher usually take a much shorter time.

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