Qvol is a plugin based application for volume processing. It is built with a C backend for creating specialized code such as tomographic reconstruction algorithms and segmentation algorithms. It is composed of the main application with a generic plugin interface for documents, views, and processes.

Examples of documents are volumes, histograms, and meshes. Volumes can also extend other documents for example a Dicom document extends a Volume Document.

Views are associated with documents and may also extend other views. For example ClinicalVolumeViewer contains 3 instances of volumeviewer.

Processes can extend the funcationality of a document or process multiple documents. An example is VolumeProjector which projects a volume onto an image (ie: a volume of size XxYx1). Another exmaple of a process is volumetomesh3dprocess which converts a volume to a 3D tetrahedral mesh.

The alpha release of qvol is planned for release in July or August of 2008