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News and Events
SCIRun/BioPSE 1.20 Now Available
The SCI Institute is proud to announce the release of SCIRun/BioPSE 1.20. This release sports a bevy of new features including two new encapsulated applications, BioTensor and BioFEM. BioTensor is designed for the processing and visualization of diffusion tensor MRI data. BioFEM is a volume conductor application for modeling, simulating and visualizing bioelectric fields. Among the many improvements in version 1.20 are enhancements to the network editor including network annotation, module blocking and hierarchical embedded sub networks. For more details see:
Second Annual NIH/NCRR Workshop Coming in December
The NIH/NCRR Center for Bioelectric Field Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization is pleased to offer a pair of workshops for users and developers of our software.
Date:
Users: December 14 and 15, 2003
Developers: December 14-16, 2003
Intended audience:
Users: All users and potential users of the NCRR software suite. We assume at least a moderate level of familiarity with bioelectric field problems, a rudimentary knowledge of Unix/Linux, but no programming expertise.
Developers:developers should be comfortable with C/C++ programming, competent Unix/Linux users, and have a basic knowledge of bioelectric field problems. Knowledge of Tcl/Tk, emacs, and XML are all useful but not required to benefit from the workshop.
DT-MRI Workshop at Vis 2003
SCI Collaborates with Center for Neural Interfaces
See Images and Video
This August SCI researchers had a unique opportunity to do interdisciplinary research with Bioengineering Professor Dick Norman from the Center for Neural Interfaces. Dr. Norman heads a team of researcher who are developing ways of restoring hearing, vision and smell to those who have lost it by electronically gathering sensory data and sending the impulses directly into the brain. He sought our expertise in order to visualize his "Utah electrode array" implanted in a feline auditory system for an upcoming presentation. He had scanned it at sub millimeter resolution with a new CT scanner at the laboratory of Mario Capecchi and Charles Keller. With the help of SCI students and staff James Bigler, Richard Coffey, Nick Green, and Gordon Kindlmann, they produced a 3D visualization that Dr. Norman termed "an amazing video that would be the highlight of his presentation." Dr. Keller also came by to see the visualization for himself and was impressed enough to inquire about future collaborations.
This was a great example of how the SCI Institute can collaborate with other departments to solve interesting and important research problems. By bringing together diverse scientific disciplines and working together as a team, great things can be achieved.
Dr. Johnson to Give Frontiers of Science Lecture
Dr. Chris Johnson will be presenting a lecture entitled “Computing the Future of Biomedicine” as part of the University of Utah College of Science's Frontiers of Science Lecture series. In it he will discuss the direction of research in Scientific Computing for medicine and some of the great research going on at SCI. The lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. at the Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building. [MAP]
Dr. Berzins Featured in EPSRC Spotlight
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) recently published a feature article spotlighting the collaboration between Dr. Martin Berzins, then at the University of Leeds, and Professor Annette Bunge, from the Colorado School of Mines on the structure of human skin.
