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Digital Brain Dissection |
contact |
Marsha Segerberg (Chandler-Gilbert Community College) marsha.segerberg@cgcmail.maricopa.edu |
college(s) |
Chandler-Gilbert Community College |
discipline(s) |
Biology, Anatomy and Physiology |
summary |
This laboratory exercise utilizes images obtained from the Visible Human Project and an image processing program called NIH Image to enable the student to learn a bit about brain anatomy. |
details |
Students can download images and image processing software from the government-sponsored (hence "free") websites provided in this package, and then digitally dissect the brain. First, transverse sections of the brain are extracted from the Visible Man's head. Sections are taken at various levels of the brain from top to bottom, saved as image files, and assembled in a layered stack in NIH Image. Then the stacked images can be animated to produce a top-to-bottom scan through the brain. Students become familiar with how the brain looks at various places in horizontal section. learn to recognize various structures within and to measure them with the tools provided in NIH Image. This particular Visible Human project is an introduction to what will be available in the future: soon students will be able to digitally dissect an entire human cadaver at very high resolution, thereby obviating the need for cadaver dissections performed as teaching demonstrations by the instructor in introductory anatomy classes.
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web links |
http://anatline.nlm.nih.gov/AnatQuest/AwtCsViewer/aq-cutaway.html ttp://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/download.html |
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extra |
Last modified: Jan-17-2003 Date created: Jan-17-2003 Visitor count: 4202 Dublin Core Metadata record  This package is included in the Chandler-Gilbert Instructional Technology Packages special collection. |
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