can be used to re-create the view and allow interactive creation of additional views

supporting artifacts, such as Segmentation instances, are preserved and can be re-used

allows collaboration between dissimilar clinical applications (e.g., a radiology application could create a view to be used as a starting point for a surgical planning application)

measurements and annotations can be linked to machine-readable structured context to allow integration with reporting and analysis applications

compact representation of dynamic views

not yet supported by legacy systems

consistency of presentation may vary

requires access to the original volumetric data and any associated objects (such as segmentation or spatial registration instances)