Re: Medical Models

From: M. Burns (marshall@ennex.com) ((marshall@ennex.com))
Date: Tue Dec 03 1996 - 13:04:41 EET


On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Elaine Persall wrote:
> Early CT data was used by Rich
> Binning to do the ear of the young man in Chicago.
> ...
> Anyone care to add to the history?

     Just a little correction here. They didn't actually use CT for that
project. Ray Evenhouse at the University of Chicago did a plaster cast of
the patient's right ear, which they then sliced and hand-traced to get
the contours! Sort of like a manual version of Craig Crump's CGI machine.
After doing this, they did later experiments in which they did laser
scans of his ear, but as far as I recall the actual prosthesis was made
from this manually-created data.

Best regards,
Marshall Burns
marshall@ennex.com

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