# Echograph for 3d model

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/echograph-for-3d-model/5639>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** dicom, ultrasound\
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/echograph-for-3d-model/5639 "2019-02-05T00:17:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhonny422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jhonny422](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jhonny422)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/echograph-for-3d-model/5639/1 "2019-02-05T00:17:48Z")

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Hi guys, What are the most known brands of ecographic equipment to obtain the 3D model? I tried with logiq s7 expert and ecube alpinion and I do not have satisfactory results, I only get 1 dcm file and I can not create 3D.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/echograph-for-3d-model/5639/2 "2019-02-05T02:11:44Z")

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Making 3D models from ultrasound is a complex topic. The SlicerHeart extension has some support for natively 3D probes from Philips but most ultrasound is collected as a freehand set of frames with no tracking. Unless you have coherent 3D data Slicer won’t be much help.

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/echograph-for-3d-model/5639/3 "2019-02-05T04:15:12Z")

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There are a number of machines that can acquire 3D volumes but usually the problem is to retrieve the images from the device (usually proprietary file format is used) - see [SlicerHeart](https://github.com/SlicerHeart/SlicerHeart) extension for a few available converters, as suggested above.

If the subject is not moving then you can attach a position tracker to the regular 2D probe and reconstruct a volume from the acquired slices. See [SlicerIGT](http://www.slicerigt.org/wp/) and [Plus toolkit](http://www.plustoolkit.org) volume reconstruction examples.

What would you like to take a 3D image of?

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**Author:** ![jhonny422](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jhonny422](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jhonny422)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/echograph-for-3d-model/5639/4 "2019-02-06T02:50:29Z")

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Hello and thank you all for responding, I want to print a baby of 25 weeks, after testing with more than 20 files, the only one that worked for me is the .vol format with the HeartSlicer extension, I have to continue working on the process but I think that initially is a success, I still have to learn how to do the reconstruction and fill some holes, it would be incredible to reconstruct part of the head, at this moment it is only a mask.!  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/1/c/1cbfe8915b3b90ea5b4aea69fab662c8c5046113.jpeg)