Today in anatomical visualization, my classmates and I got a glimpse of what the possibilities for visualization include. Software one available only to hospitals due to cost and file sizes now can be viewed with just a laptop. The program Osirix is being used to view dicom files. Basically, these files contain multiple scans of different parts of the body, such as the heart, knee, pelvis, and trunk. They are divided into transverse, coronal, and sagittal planes with the option to create a 3D view for some of them.
