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My name is David C. Olsen, and I am a student at the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, Nurse Anesthetist school. I am
creating a new teaching tool to be rendered in 3d as a thesis project,
and I'm looking for software. I will be using the dataset from NIH's
Visible Human, and reconstructing the lumbar spine region to be used for
teaching epidural anesthesia. I will be using a Sun Solaris system
(kindly donated by Tekamah Corp.) to collect, separate and render the
data. Does your software do this from MRI, CT, or fresh section data?
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. David C. Olsen,
LT, NC, USN.

Hi David,
IRAF is mainly used in the analysis of 2-D astronomical data and
any 3-D analysis is crude by medical imaging standards. Besides which the
data formats you described couldn't be converted easily to the native IRAF
format, so I'm afraid we probably can't help. I'd suggest (if you haven't
already done so) looking at the Yahoo page on medical imaging as a starting
point: http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine/Medical_Imaging/Hope this helps.Regards,
Mike Fitzpatrick