pyvCT

An ABAQUS plug-in for the creation of virtual CT scans from 3D finite element bone/implant models.

Developed together with bonemapy, pyvXRAY and BMDanalyse to provide tools for preparation and post-processing of bone/implant computer models.

Copyright 2015, Michael Hogg (michael.christopher.hogg@gmail.com)

MIT license - See LICENSE.txt for details on usage and redistribution

Requirements

Software requirements

• ABAQUS >= 6.11 (tested on 6.11, 6.12 and 6.13)
• pydicom >= 0.9.9 (available on github)

For building cython modules from source (e.g. if not using releases with pre-built modules):

• A C compiler. Using ABAQUS Python on Windows requires Microsoft C++. Can use other compilers (i.e. mingw32) if you have a separate Python installation.
• Cython >= 0.17. This is optional, as .cpp files generated by Cython are provided

NOTES:

1. ABAQUS is a commerical software package and requires a license from Simulia
2. The author of pyvCT is not associated with ABAQUS/Simulia
3. Python and numpy are heavily used by pyvCT. These are built in to ABAQUS. All of the last few releases (v6.11 - v6.13) use Python 2.6.x and numpy 1.4.x

Help

For help create an Issue or a Pull Request on Github.