Interactive brain atlas with the Visible Human Project data: development methods and techniques.
1996; Radiological Society of North America; Volume: 16; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1148/radiographics.16.5.8888399
ISSN1527-1323
AutoresM Y Toh, Ruth Falk, Julian Main,
Tópico(s)Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
ResumoA prototype of an interactive digital brain atlas was developed by using the Visible Human Project data set of the National Library of Medicine. This data set provides corresponding axial magnetic resonance images, computed tomographic images, and cryosections of the brain. The prototype was developed to demonstrate the techniques and methods that will be used throughout the development process of the atlas. The atlas has a graphical user interface, supports user interaction with various representations of the brain (i.e., two-dimensional and three-dimensional [3D]), and displays multiple images simultaneously. Motion sequences of the 3D brain were incorporated in the atlas to provide an important link between two-dimensional brain slices and volume-rendered 3D anatomic structures. Volume visualization tools were used to interactively render, rotate, and reslice the volumetric brain data. The brain was segmented with manual tracing, thresholding, and morphologic algorithms and then rendered with volume-rendering tools.
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