{"id":61242,"date":"2017-11-20T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T22:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=61242"},"modified":"2017-11-20T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T22:21:29","slug":"technology-from-harry-potter-movies-brings-magic-of-brain-into-focus-2-items-on-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/11\/20\/technology-from-harry-potter-movies-brings-magic-of-brain-into-focus-2-items-on-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"“Technology from ‘Harry Potter’ Movies Brings Magic of Brain into Focus” + 2 items on VR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology from \u201cHarry Potter\u201d Movies Brings Magic of Brain into Focus<\/strong><\/a> — from scientificamerican.com by Bahar Gholipour
\nSoftware lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform \u201cvirtual dissections\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The same techniques that generate images of smoke, clouds and fantastic beasts in movies can render neurons and brain structures in fine-grained detail.<\/p>\n

Two projects presented yesterday at the 2017 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, D.C., gave attendees a sampling of what these powerful technologies can do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the same rendering techniques that are used to make graphics for \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 movies,\u201d says Tyler Ard, a neuroscientist in Arthur Toga\u2019s lab at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Ard presented the results of applying these techniques to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.<\/p>\n

The methods can turn massive amounts of data into images, making them ideally suited to generate brain scans. Ard and his colleagues develop code that enables them to easily enter data into the software. They plan to make the code freely available to other researchers.<\/p>\n

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