Re: Materialize

From: Daniel Anderson (DePuy , Inc.), Marshall Burns (Ennex  Corporation)
To: RP-ML
Date: Thursday, December 21, 1995
Subject: Re: Materialize
On Wed, 20 Dec 1995 dla@depuy.com wrote:
> We have Surgicad here, and I believe that SDRC has some sort of relation-
> ship with a CT-conversion company, but I'm not sure of the details.
> Daniel Anderson
> DePuy Orthopaedics
Hi Dan, Long time, no see.
     The program is called Med-Link. It converts CT and MRI data into  solid models. It runs only under SDRC I-DEAS on an SGI Indigo2. A related  product is ImageVolumes, for scientific visualization and volumetric  analysis.
     A case study on Med-Link quotes Drs. Richard Reynolds and Daniel  Antonelli of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles. These guys seem to like  it a lot.
     Med-Link is $4,000 from Dynamic Computer Resources, San Dimas,  California, phone +1 (909) 305-1055, e-mail dcr_inc@primenet.com.
     ImageVolumes is $6,900 from Minnesota Datametrics, St. Paul,  Minnesota, USA, phone +1 (612) 482-7938, fax +1 (612) 490-9717.

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:25:38 -0500
     Good to hear from you, Marshall!  Thanks very much for the very valuable information!
Ragards,
Dan

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 14:56:35 -0500
Subject: CT Translation Sotftware
     Do any of you know of any software to translate CT into any type of CAD-usable geometry?  I am familiar with Materialize  and Surgicad, but we are looking for something less expensive that could possibly be customized.
Is there anything that is maybe public domain?  Maybe..?  Possibly..?
     Anyway, I know that this is probably a stretch, but we did some work with several different universities a few years ago that each had some variations of CT-to-CAD "engines."  So I am wondering if there are a few packages out there that can be utilized without a huge up-front investment.
     Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Daniel Anderson
DePuy Orthopaedics
700 Orthopaedic Drive
Warsaw, IN 46581-0988
dla@depuy.com