Saving a MIP to a New Image

You can save a MIP to a new image (e.g., a NIFTI or a DICOM image) from the File menu Saving a Maximum Intensity Projection as a new image

This will create a new single-slice image on disk, showing the current MIP view. A File Chooser will pop up, for you to set the file name for the saved MIP image.

Export a MIP as a Movie

You can export a MIP movie showing the rotation, from the File menu Exporting a Maximum Intensity Projection to a movie

This brings up a dialog to setup the movie:

The dialog to set up the Maximum Intensity Projection export to a movie

First, choose what format you want for the exported movie:

  • Select export the movie as an animated GIF image Animated GIF image.
  • Select export the movie as a Quick Time video Quick time movie.
  • Select export the movie as an AVI file Audio Video Interleave (AVI) file.

Select the settings you want for the exported movie:

  • Time between successive frames of the movie, in milliseconds.
  • The number of movie frames. In the movie, the MIP will rotate 360 degrees, so for example if you select 10 frames, the rotation step between frames will be 36°.
  • Whether to loop continuously - applicable to animated GIF images only. If not selected, the animation will run just once through, and then stop at the last frame. With other formats, the looping behaviour is controlled by the media player.
  • Scale. The movie will be exported so that one image pixel corresponds to one screen pixel in the movie. If you want to scale the image up or down to make its on-screen appearance bigger or smaller, select an appropriate scaling by clicking on one of the buttons.

When the export is set up, click on the Button to export the movie button. You will then be prompted to select a file into which the exported movie will be written. The animated GIF file below, showing an MRI time-of-flight angiogram, was created using the export feature.

[A time-of-flight angiogram exported as an animated GIF (Animated: View cine on-line version)