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Virtual Autopsy On a Multi-Touch Table Surface

Posted by Soulskill on from the over-my-dead-body dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Engadget points out one of the more interesting ways to use a multitouch table surface so far. Researchers at Norrkoping Visualization Centre and the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Sweden have fitted such a device with stunning, volume-rendered visualizations of high-resolution MRI data. If you've ever wondered what the inside of a human being really looks like, but lacked the grit or credentials to watch an autopsy in the flesh, check it out."

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  1. Re:So, when will Virtual Surgeon for Wii be out? by sjfoland · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Center_Second_Opinion

  2. Re:So, when will Virtual Surgeon for Wii be out? by strateego · · Score: 4, Informative

    So, when will Virtual Surgeon for Wii be out?
    Waiting with anticipation.

    Will these suffice?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_center_new_blood
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Center_Second_Opinion
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Team

    Or maybe the Nintendo DS versions??
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Center:_Under_the_Knife
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_Center:_Under_the_Knife_2

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  3. Re:So, when will Virtual Surgeon for Wii be out? by Prien715 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which version doesn't devolve into a bunch of space-invader style minigames with matrix-style slow motion surgery?

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  4. What you miss at a real autopsy by dorpus · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used to work at a hospital, and they let me sit in on one. What you miss is the yellow skin of corpses, and the fact that they still make noises from various orifices when you move the body parts.

    The gall bladder really is green -- it's not an artifact of textbook coloring.

    Everyone said I will get sick from watching a real autopsy, but it didn't feel any worse than watching a horror movie. I wore a mask, so didn't smell much.

  5. Re:I think by demonlapin · · Score: 2, Informative
    The southern humorist (and sports columnist) Lewis Grizzard once commented beautifully on this when describing the three ways in which a person can be said to lack clothing:
    1. Nude: what people in paintings are
    2. Naked: what you are when you are born, or in the shower.
    3. Nekkid: naked and up to something
  6. Re:solution in search of a problem by demonlapin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Er, no. Autopsy has many components; MRI or CT would supplant only the most cursory examination. Organs are weighed; they are examined both grossly and microscopically. The vasculature is examined carefully - there's no way to do that with dead people without cutting them open, because they can't circulate the contrast material needed to see them on a scan. Toxicology can be collected. And so forth.