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da ([personal profile] da) wrote2007-06-14 04:28 pm
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Brains and Bones

What 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.

[identity profile] sulle-stelle.livejournal.com 2007-06-15 10:19 am (UTC)(link)

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).

[identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com 2007-07-26 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
...just going through LJ messages I haven't removed from my inbox; since I was working with the slice-o-matic prof yesterday.

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.