Images play an important role in medical diagnosis and therapy.
New application areas have evolved during recent years, such as radiation treatment planning and the simulation of various kinds of surgery. Therefore, clinical researchers from a variety of disciplines are increasingly confronted with the problem of making efficient use of digital equipment. Yet progress is generally hampered by the lack of adequate software tools that allow research ideas to be rapidly realized. Through the usage of IP and CG libraries such costs could be reduced, while still remaining on a high level due to permanent re-development. Pure medical workstations like Analyze, on the other hand, offer a number of IP and CG methods under a more or less comfortable user interface.