Good morning,

I'm a clinician (epilepsy fellow) who has been using MRIcro/MRIcron/MRIcroGL daily to help in detailed review of imaging for subtle structural abnormalities.

One of the processes we go through is implanting depth electrodes to try to localise epileptogenic foci - I've attached a test version of the printouts we use to help orient ourselves.  We have been generating these by using MRIcro to 3d render a crosshair of the entry and target points which we estimate from the clinical software and then draw those onto a still of the render in different orientations.

I would love to be able to shift this process over to either MRIcron or MRIcroGL (right now the tendency to lose L/R orientation on MRIcro can be a pain) but neither software has the ability to project a crosshair on a 3d rendered image - is there a way I can manage this with the MRIcroGL as they stand? If not, is there any chance you are considering reintroducing the render crosshair function from the older MRIcro tool into GL?

Many thanks!

I see I'm not the first to ask after reading the previous forum post. I'll have a go at that, but what I'm after is the inverse of that function -  where you click on a spot on a coronal/axial/sagittal slice and it displays a crosshair onto the render - is that feasible?

If you want to suggest a new feature, you can create a feature request on
  https://github.com/rordenlab/MRIcroGL
Select the "Issues" button  and then choose to report a "New Issue". Crosshairs are a little tricky to draw in volume rendering, as that mode is dealing with voxels (e.g. 3D bitmap textures) not vectors. It is doable, just tricky. It is an open source project, so if anyone wants to contribute a solution they can generate a pull request.

For feature requests use Github to generate a new issue (select issues, then select new issue):
  https://github.com/rordenlab/MRIcroGL/issues
It is feasible, but a bit tricky to implement.

Can you please try out the latest MRIcroGL pre-release (v1.2.20210816). When you choose the "Multi-Planar A+C+S+R" from the "Disply" menu, you will see all four views show a cross-hair and all interactively move to the location of a mouse click:
  https://github.com/rordenlab/MRIcroGL/releases/tag/v1.2.20210816
The formula is described here
  https://github.com/rordenlab/MRIcroGL/tree/master/DepthPicking