Brains and Bones
Thursday, 14 June 2007 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daWhat did I do today?
(Cover your eyes, it's kinda gross):
Reconstructing the surface of a brain sample [1] and installing a Slice-o-matic to segment leg-bones.
Ewww!
Yes, I'm a day late to the zombie party, but nothing of what I wrote above is fiction.
Ewwwwww!
[1] The brain's the optical lobe of a fruit-fly brain, sampled by a laser scanning microscope... which makes for a really neat software tutorial.
[Edited to add:] And I didn't even get to wear gloves.
(Cover your eyes, it's kinda gross):
Reconstructing the surface of a brain sample [1] and installing a Slice-o-matic to segment leg-bones.
Ewww!
Yes, I'm a day late to the zombie party, but nothing of what I wrote above is fiction.
Ewwwwww!
[1] The brain's the optical lobe of a fruit-fly brain, sampled by a laser scanning microscope... which makes for a really neat software tutorial.
[Edited to add:] And I didn't even get to wear gloves.
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Date: Friday, 15 June 2007 10:19 am (UTC)Neato!
One of the things I like about radiation oncology is that we have all kinds of cool software to play with. Treatment planning software has tools within it similar to that Slice-O-Matic software (which is a terrible name, btw -- sounds like something you'd buy at 2 am from an infomercial).
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Date: Thursday, 26 July 2007 08:35 pm (UTC)It's interesting to me that slice-o-matic and similar software all have disclaimers that say they are ONLY to be used for research, not treatment.