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Chapter 5
Implementation
This chapter provides an insight into the implementation details of this work. In section
5.1 the used software packages and libraries are presented to meet the requirements
from section 4.1. Therefore, figure 5.1 outlines the compilation process of our framework
and summarizes all dependencies.
Subsequently, section 5.2 defines the extensions we made for the iMEDgine medical
image viewer. The interfaces and structures which are necessary to access DICOM
medical data and 4D-Flow Toolbox intermediate files are defined there. Furthermore,
the configuration mechanisms and implemented features for different iMEDgine views
are explained. In general we present UML-diagrams in these chapter with omitted
methods. The corresponding full diagrams are shown in appendix B.
All developed visualization algorithms are defined in section 5.3. There we separate
global visualization approaches and morphological background information visualization
from hardware accelerated algorithms.
5.1 Software Environment
The main parts of the multi platform Software Development Kit (SDK) which accrued
due to the presented requirements is outlined in figure 5.1. This illustration also indicates
the whole compilation process with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for Microsoft
Windows of iMEDgine and our extensions. We used the following software packages
and libraries for our visualization framework:
• CMake 2.4.7: software configuration to provide multi-platform support,
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