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To: GraceZ who wrote (35032)	11/8/2000 10:00:03 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

Speaking of digital imaging, I don't know if you've ever seen a CT scan, but the images are saved to film as serial "slices" and look quite a lot like x-rays. However, the real-time images are 3D, and with the right software, can be rendered as 3D images, then enhanced, rotated, and so on. cc.emory.edu bocaradiology.com The first time I saw this was up in your neck of the woods, at Johns Hopkins, and they were using an IBM Big Blue, but now it looks like you can use a desktop. I can't find the right image on-line, but I've seen them select for veins, muscle, bone, from the same image, and whatever they want to focus on sort of pops out. And of course the images can be sent over the Internet to a specialist. So that's better than x-rays. Edit: here's one but it's somewhat crude. splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/urol/text.html#Figure 1: