Re: extracting vertebraes

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Yann Andenmatten (andenmat++at++imtsg11.epfl.ch)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:58:10 +0100

On Nov 12, 9:58am, LIM MING WAH wrote:
> Subject: Re: wet appearance in surgery
>
> Sorry I'm not replying to your problem, but then I am also doing a project
> to simulate a spine surgery in VR. The sources of my spine are from CT or
> MRI images, which I have to spend considerable time on extracting the
> vertebraes into performer. I am currently using Analyze to extract the
> vertebraes. Do you have a better recommendation?
>
> PS: the extracted results are not very satisfying and are very big files.
>
> Thanks!!!
>

We had the organs from an other university who extrated them from the "visble
man" project. We simplified the organs (the number of vertices) with Explore
4.2 (Reduce Polygon function) to reduce the size of the objects and decrease
the texture distortions. That's all I know.

I don't know Analyze, sorry.

                        Yann Andenmatten

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