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How to create a 3D model of your brain... |
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- Volunteer for medical research on memory to help develop treatment for Alzheimer's and have your brain scanned by an MRI machine.
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- Ask for the data files from the Structural Scan (they should give you this due to data-protection rules but you may have to pay a small admin fee).
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- Write a computer program to load in the files and display them graphically on the screen.
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- Remove the skull from the data-file, by first trying to develop an algorithm which radially scans through the voxels looking for increased density, and then giving up and using a piece of freeware called MRIcro instead.
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- Add a routine to your program that can export the data as an STL file, or export as DXF and use Rhinoceros to convert it into an STL file.
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- Find someone like Metropolitan Works who have a 3D rapid prototype machine and are willing (for a price) to print out models for the general public.
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| Take a nice photo of it for your website. |
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| Then agree to loan it to the Royal Society for them to use as part of an exhibition on human anatomy. (The one on the right is a wax sculpture and NOT to scale) |
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| And then make a copy in colour to give to the Science Museum for them to use as part of a 3D printing exhibition. (placed in the "medical" section along with skulls and replacement hips |
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| And of course, when ART-UK ask for permission to include pictures of the Brain in their online repository, say Yes Please! |
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