This film shows the early pioneering work on 3D reconstruction of the human body from CT and MRI scans in the years 1986 to 1991. Highlights include the first 3D reconstruction of the brain of a living person (4:00), the first 4D reconstruction of a beating heart from ECG-triggered MRI images (5:36) and the first virtually unwrapped Egyptian mummy (7:20).
Authors: Karl Heinz Höhne, Wolf-Joachim Höltje, Henning Krämer, Werner Lierse, Rainer Maas, Bernhard Pflesser, Andreas Pommert, Kay Priesmeyer, Ernst Richter, Martin Riemer, Thomas Schiemann, Rainer Schubert, Christian Seebode, Ulf Tiede.
Although originally produced in digital format, this video was copied from Betacam tape.
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