MRIcron

MRIcron is a user-friendly and efficient piece of software which aims to assist you in viewing medical imagery with multiple layering, supporting HDR, NII and VOI formats, thus enabling you to analyze scans, X-rays and other similar files with minimal effort.

Following the download process, you can decompress the archive and launch the application straight away, as it is not necessary to install it on your computer for it to function.

As such, you can store MRIcron on a USB stick or other portable storage devices, and carry it with you wherever you go, running it on all compatible systems, at work or at home, without a problem.

The interface of MRIcron is sufficiently easy to handle, which means you do not need a lot of prior experience in order to use it. The main toolbar features all the components that you may want to use, like the ‘Toggle Crosshairs’, ‘Pen Tool’ or ‘Fill Tool’.

The program provides you with several menus, for instance ‘Overlay’, ‘Draw’, ‘View’ or ‘Edit’ that enable you to adjust the display of the medical images, and analyze the areas that are of interest to you.

MRIcron allows you to open the document you need from the ‘File’ menu, loading it into the main window and letting you view it on the X, Y and Z axes, in three different panels. The available view modes are ‘Axial’, ‘Coronal’, ‘Sagittal’ or ’Multiple’.

Using your mouse cursor, you can move around the picture and adjust it in order to access and analyze a certain layer. Moreover, MRIcron offers you a ‘MultiSlice’ function that creates individual photos for various sections of the medical image, rendering them in a queue to help you compare them more swiftly.

To sum it up, MRIcron is a reliable and easy to use utility that you can resort to when you need to work with scans, X-rays and other similar medical images, allowing you to complete your analysis in a fraction of the time.