# Volume rendering preset to dicom or NIFTI
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-rendering-preset-to-dicom-or-nifti/18605
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 9, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-rendering-preset-to-dicom-or-nifti/18605 "2021-07-09T16:22:55Z")
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### Author:  [@tpereira](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/tpereira)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-rendering-preset-to-dicom-or-nifti/18605/1 "2021-07-09T16:22:55Z")
I have a CT scan and I am using the volume rendering preset CT-Bones. I want to save that into a dicom or a nifti or some other format. It could also be helpful if could segment based on the rendering preset or create a model from it. Let me know if any of this is possible. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-rendering-preset-to-dicom-or-nifti/18605/2 "2021-07-12T04:13:40Z")
Volume rendering is just a visualization technique, so you can just save the image as nifti and you can volume render that image the same way anywhere else.
CT-Bones preset has a ramp up from 0 opacity to 0.19 opacity in about 120HU, so you won’t be able to reproduce the exact same visual appearance with a solid surface, but you can go to Segment Editor module and try the Threshold effect to see what you get. For spine segmentation we worked out a very good protocol at the last project week. See more information [here](https://github.com/NA-MIC/ProjectWeek/blob/master/PW35_2021_Virtual/Projects/SpineSegmentation/README.md#spine-segmentation-protocol-for-training-data-generation).