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Teaching the Virtual Brain
As a complex three-dimensional organ, the inside of a human brain is difficult to properly visualize. Magnetic Resonance Imaging provides an accurate model of the brain of a patient, but its medical or educational analysis as a set of flat slices is not enough to fully grasp its internal structure....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9712841/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35606668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-022-00652-5 |
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author | Hernández-Aceituno, Javier Arnay, Rafael Hernández, Guadalberto Ezama, Laura Janssen, Niels |
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description | As a complex three-dimensional organ, the inside of a human brain is difficult to properly visualize. Magnetic Resonance Imaging provides an accurate model of the brain of a patient, but its medical or educational analysis as a set of flat slices is not enough to fully grasp its internal structure. A virtual reality application has been developed to generate a complete three-dimensional model based on MRI data, which users can explore internally through random planar cuts and color cluster isolation. An indexed vertex triangulation algorithm has been designed to efficiently display large amounts of complex three-dimensional vertex clusters in simple mobile devices. Feedback from students suggests that the resulting application satisfactorily complements theoretical lectures, as virtual reality allows them to better observe different structures within the human brain. |
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spelling | pubmed-97128412022-12-02 Teaching the Virtual Brain Hernández-Aceituno, Javier Arnay, Rafael Hernández, Guadalberto Ezama, Laura Janssen, Niels J Digit Imaging Original Paper As a complex three-dimensional organ, the inside of a human brain is difficult to properly visualize. Magnetic Resonance Imaging provides an accurate model of the brain of a patient, but its medical or educational analysis as a set of flat slices is not enough to fully grasp its internal structure. A virtual reality application has been developed to generate a complete three-dimensional model based on MRI data, which users can explore internally through random planar cuts and color cluster isolation. An indexed vertex triangulation algorithm has been designed to efficiently display large amounts of complex three-dimensional vertex clusters in simple mobile devices. Feedback from students suggests that the resulting application satisfactorily complements theoretical lectures, as virtual reality allows them to better observe different structures within the human brain. Springer International Publishing 2022-05-23 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9712841/ /pubmed/35606668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-022-00652-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Hernández-Aceituno, Javier Arnay, Rafael Hernández, Guadalberto Ezama, Laura Janssen, Niels Teaching the Virtual Brain |
title | Teaching the Virtual Brain |
title_full | Teaching the Virtual Brain |
title_fullStr | Teaching the Virtual Brain |
title_full_unstemmed | Teaching the Virtual Brain |
title_short | Teaching the Virtual Brain |
title_sort | teaching the virtual brain |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9712841/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35606668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-022-00652-5 |
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