sure, so basically like this. I have reformated sag and cor planes that was done by the CT scanner at time of imaging, the reformats are very high quality and not pixelated like the auto reformats that 3D slicer creates from the Axial scans.
In the volume rendering module, I can select all three of these CT scans to view on the 3D renderer and it creates a very nice and high resolution 3D reconstruction using all three planes.
Now, if I want to convert this to a 3D model, It’s my understanding I have to segment this, using the segment editor and threshold tool to select the bone, it does a pretty good job at grabbing all the bone and creating a map to eventually generate the 3D model with, but it is only using the CT images in the Axial plane
so needless to say, when I generate the 3D model, it becomes “stepped” and loses a lot of the quality, as it’s only using one plane to generate the model, as opposed to a volume re-construction using several planes.
the pixel size also is pretty large, I have a powerful GPU so I wanted to create a 3D reconstruction with as much vertex data as possible, but it seems it can only move in one plane and have fairly large pixel rendering, resulting in a 3D re-construction that isn’t as high polygon as I would like.
I am wondering if there is a way to increase this resolution, or further create a model using the cor and seg CT data I have to create a model that is more similar to the one that is created for the volume rendering?