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A 3-D View of the Brain

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the mine-is-kinda-bland-before-the-coffee-kicks-in dept.

Jamie found a nifty story about Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital coming up with new 3D Brain Imaging Software. The interesting bit is that it merges data from MRIs as well as various other types of brain scans to create a single visualization for your noodle.

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  1. The ultimate geek by GregPK · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Would order pictures of his brain and keep one on his desk in a frame.

    I'm such a dork, because I kinda want one too. :-D

  2. nothing new by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Computer-assisted stereotactic neurosurgery has been around for a long time. The software takes MRI slices and uses a marching-cubes-type algorithm to convert from texels to voxels. I don't see how this software is anything new really, other than maybe using some other kind of input image.

  3. Re:Of Course by Bohnanza · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Who says the human brain came about by accident? Evolutionary theory certainly does not say this.

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    Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.

  4. FYI,one way to compute 3d brain models from MRIs.. by syn1kk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is done through the application of 'level sets' its pretty fun stuff to study. There are some cool videos of level set stuff like this one: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/animations/wa ter_oil.avi . And the application of level sets is very broad. I've only dabbled in Level Sets but I am very tempted to do a Master's thesis on it =P.