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You can buy you own copy of this ground-breaking CD-Rom, or follow these instructions and you should be able to make your own.
You will need the following equipment:
Firstly, take your cadaver arm and dissect it using your scapels. As you reveal each tendon in the arm, pull it and watch which finger moves. Record entire operation on video for later inclusion on disk.
Second, place willing volunteer's arm inside MRI machine and tell him/her not to move for two hours. Scan slices through their arm using powerful magnetic coil at distances of approximately 4 millimetres apart.
Take MR slice data of arm and on each slice draw around outline of every muscle and tendon you can see - you may need to refer to Gray's Anatomy for some of the smaller ones, though don't rely exclusively on it as it's occassionally wrong. Now is the time to watch your video to ensure you've got everything and haven't missed any little tendons or veins.
Whilst this is going on, boil down the leftover bones from the cadaver, CT scan them and build a computer model of the skeleton arm from these bones (see lesson one for details).
Then using your workstations, rebuild the MR slice data onto the rebuilt model of the skeleton bones. Animate some of the fingers and render lots of images of different layers of muscles, ligaments, veins, tendons and bones to give an all over view of the entire remodelled hand and forearm.
Finally, write a program that pulls everything together and presents all the pictures on screen with lots of hyperlinked text, dissection movies that you made earlier, labelled dissection pictures, and the MRI scan through the arm as a cross-reference.
So, that's it. Not too difficult, though you'll probably find it takes somewhere around 18 months to get it all done....and here's one I made earlier.
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