A marriage made in silico

Today our lab, which is tres computery for an anatomy lab, took delivery of our new MacBook Pro. This got me really excited, not the least of which because I like good design and Macs are some of the best examples of good design out there these days. I mean, good design is enjoyable, it makes you want to use it and, though I am a died-in-the-wool PC man, I do appreciate the Mac. I digress. The most of which part that got me excited was Osirix.

Osirix is a free, open-source piece of Wunderware which does amazing stuff with DICOM series; MRI, CT, Ultrasound... It sucks them all up and lets you actually DO something with them. Being a medical illustrator who works in anatomy lab, I'm always thinking of new ways to show something, so I have plans around the "DO something" part of Osirix. Those plans involve another piece of big powerfull Wunderware, which I'll refrain from naming for a while. Anywho, my first attempt to play matchmaker between these two resulted in a pretty good first date see below. Check out the CT shadows from the dental work.