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- From: rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: 3D reconstruction from serial cross sections
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 21:07:57 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel)
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- For my Ph.D. dissertation, I did this the good old-fashioned
- 19th-century German anatomical way--by hand. Trace sections onto paper,
- align using a light table, then reconstruct by isometric (orthogonal)
- projection. Since I am also an illustrator, this turned out well. But
- now that I am a postdoc, my new boss wants to use computer graphics
- methods.
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- The problem is, at least in the biological field, every paper
- published in the last 2 years I have seen dealing with 3D reconstructions
- uses either the 19th-century by-hand method, or else jerry-rigged hardware
- and custom, hardware-specific software (read: not commercially available).
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- I am prepared to admit that we biologists are not up to speed
- on the current advances in such analyses (thus the preponderance of
- jerry-rigged equipment). What, then, are more modern means of making
- 3D reconstructions from serial cross sections? E-mail please and I
- will summarize for the net.
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- I would be particularly interested in any solutions based
- on the 80x86 computer family (for my owm practical needs), but please
- feel free to describe any setup you wish which does this kind of
- analysis. Many thanks in advance.
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- Richard F. Drushel ****** Ph.D. in Developmental Biology as of 4:45 PM 9211.20
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