The File menu contains 13 buttons presented in 4 groups:
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The buttons of the first group are used to manipulate image files. With these, you can input images in sliceOmatic, either with the “DICOM Browser” or “Medi Browser” interfaces or the “File Open” window. You can also save the results of the manipulation of the grey-level images with the “Save GLI Files” and of the segmentation with the “Save TAG Files” window.
The buttons of the second group are used to manipulate script files. The script files are used to read multiple images and do some basic manipulations on these. You can read a script file either with the “Script Browser” interface or the “Script Open” window. You can also create a script that will reopen all the files currently opened in sliceOmatic with the “Script Save as...” window.
The buttons of the third group are used to manipulate polygonal surface files. You can read a surface file with the “Read Geometry” window and save the active surfaces with the “Save Geometry as ...” window.
The buttons of the last group allow you to access the Raw_Header program in order to read images from unsupported format, the Configuration Menu to customize sliceOmatic’s interface, the Tomovision_License program to register your sliceOmatic modules, and finally to Quit the program.
The “DICOM Browser” and “Medi Browser” button
These buttons will start the DICOM Browser or the Medi Browser. These Explorer-like browsers enables you to preview and select the images you want to read in sliceOmatic.
For a detailed description of the DICOM Browser, please refer to The DICOM Browser section.
For a detailed description of the Medi Browser, please refer to The Medi Browser section.
The “File Open” button
If you already know the name of the image file you want to read, this button will activate a Windows file browser. From this window, you can select multiple file names. All the selected files will be read into sliceOmatic when you click the “OK” button.
The “Save GLI Files” button
Pressing this button will cause sliceOmatic to save all selected GLI files if these files are not in their original orientation.
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Pressing this button will cause sliceOmatic to save all modified TAG files. If the file does not already exist, it will be created either in the same directory as the GLI file, (with the same name and the “.tag” extension) or in a specified directory, depending on the selected configurations (See the TAG section of The Configuration Menu).
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The “Script Browser” button
This button will start the Script_Browser. This Explorer-like program enables you to preview and select the scripts you want to read in sliceOmatic.
For a detailed description of the Script_Browser, please refer to The Script_Browser section.
The “Script Open” button
If you already know the name of the script file you want to read, this button will activate a Windows file browser. From this window, you can select the desired script file. The selected file will be read into sliceOmatic when you click the “Open” button.
The “Save Script as ...” button
This button will activate a Windows file browser. From this window, you can enter the desired name and location for the script file. When you click the “Save” button, a script file containing the name, orientation and order of all the currently opened files will be written at the desired location. You can use this script to reload the images you are currently working on.
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The “Geometry Open” button
This button will activate a Windows file browser. From this window, you can select one geometry file. The selected file will be read into sliceOmatic when you click the “Open” button. The program can read geometry in MOVIE.BYU and STL format.
The “Save Geometry as ...” button
This button will activate a Windows file browser. From this window, you can enter the desired name and location for the geometry file.
You can save your geometries in one of the following formats:
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Movie.BYU format. This old polygon format, developed by Brigham Young University for their MOVIE.BYU program in the 80's, is very simple which make it ideal to store simple polygonal objects such as those created in sliceOmatic. The format is described in more detail in appendix E. SliceOmatic can create ".dxf" files, but it cannot read them.
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dxf |
Autocad file format. The geometries will be saved using the POLYLINE primitives. A definition of the DXF file format can be found in Wikipedia. SliceOmatic can create ".dxf" files, but it cannot read them.
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stl & stl_ascii
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Stereolithography file format (binary version and ASCII versions). A definition of the STL file format can be found in Wikipedia.
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obj |
Wavefront OBJ file format. A definition of the OBJ file format can be found in Wikipedia. SliceOmatic can create ".obj" files, but it cannot read them.
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wrl |
A VRML polygon file. A definition of the VRML file format can be found in Wikipedia. SliceOmatic can create ".wrl" files, but it cannot read them.
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The “Raw Image Support” button
This button will start the Raw Header program.
For a detailed description of the Raw Header program, please refer to The Raw Header Program.
The “Config” button
This button will open the configuration menu to help you setup your startup preferences. Any changes you make to the preferences will be visible the next time you start sliceOmatic.
A detailed description of this menu is provided further down in The Configuration Menu section.
The “Register” button
This button will start the Tomovision_License program in order to register your sliceOmatic modules.
A detailed description of the Tomovision_License program is provided in the "The License" section of the Installation Guide.
The “Quit” button
This button causes you to exit from the program. If the program detects any modifications to the TAG images since you last saved them with the “Save TAG Files” button, a warning pop-up will prompt you to save the changes or lose them.