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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. Check out the 'MultiMedia' by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 4, Informative

    As well as TFA there's a 'Multimedia' link which give much more info - as well as having some pretty pictures.

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  2. We all know what a man's brain really looks like- by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.suddenlysenior.com/Images/malebrainwome n.gif

  3. 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.

  4. Nothing new here... by perrin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work within the field of medical imaging, and this is nothing new. People have been doing image fusion with images from different image modalities for over a decade. There are lots of products like this one, some even open source and with more impressive screenshots. Why is this particular product, which is not even named or referenced, featured? If you want to see impressive open source work within the medical world, check out ITK and VTK (http://www.vtk.org/ and http://www.itk.org/). Now that is really cutting edge work done with free software.

    1. Re:Nothing new here... by cbelt3 · · Score: 4, Informative

      .. a decade.

      How about over THREE Decades. As a high school student (in the 70's), I worked on software to merge CAT scans and thermal scans of the brain during an NSF summer program at Mizzou. Fortran IV, big honkin IBM 360 mainframe, etc. The first run with a full data load took the entire University mainframe down (hey, I was only 15 and didn't understand JCL, shoot me). We were trying to auto-diagnose tumors.

      The basic engineering has been refined, but the science is still the same.