This 3 year old Duke Visualization Friday video is fascinating, “Medical Imaging Simulation of Mice and Men”, by Paul Segars. Dr. Segars uses Voxelman data to build his own 3D NURBS based model of every organ, bone, nerve in the body. Then MRI data is combined from other colleagues to construct formulas for scaling the organs from 90th percentile to 10th percentile people as well as youth to elderly. Using a different set of data, they simulate heart and lung movement, both independently and then as a complete body system. Finally to complete their “phantom” patient, they generate photo realistic MRI data sets for the given organ constructs, complete with disease conditions.

Go to iTunesU and search for Paul Segars.

-Michael