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From: aa2@h.cc.purdue.edu (Bryan Putnam)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,bionet.software.pc
Subject: Re: digitizers and software: request for information
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Date: 12 Apr 88 21:53:55 GMT
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In article <3830@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> riedl@cs.purdue.EDU (John T Riedl) writes:
>My wife is working in a neuro-biology lab that frequently needs to
>measure volumes of parts of brains and spinal cords.  Their current
>approach is to slice the brain into cross-sections, draw on paper an
>outline of the interesting part of each cross-section using a drawing
>microscope, compute the area enclosed by each curve using a mechanical
>digitizer, and approximate the volume by summing the areas of the
>cross-sections.  The lab is considering alternate approaches that
>would speed up this process.

I'm sure that this has already been considered, but why not just
drop the brain into a fluid and measure the level change?

-Bryan Putnam

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