# Volume representation without noise and garbage

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-representation-without-noise-and-garbage/14046>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** dicom, 3d-model, volume-rendering\
**Created:** [October 14, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-representation-without-noise-and-garbage/14046 "2020-10-14T22:52:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![JanWitowski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/janwitowski/32/4512_2.png) [@JanWitowski](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/JanWitowski)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-representation-without-noise-and-garbage/14046/2 "2020-10-14T23:22:52Z")

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You can’t export volume rendering as a 3D mesh, this visualization method does not create a model. Please refer [to other topics](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/save-volume-rendering-as-stl-file/524/) for more details.

You are most likely looking for surface rendering: you would need to perform segmentation (Segment Editor/Segmentation modules) on your loaded DICOM images. Then you can clean it up with available tools (brushes, scissors, smoothing etc.) to your liking and export as a 3D mesh.

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