InVesalius

InVesalius is medical software used to reconstruct structures of the human body. Based on two-dimensional images, acquired with Computed tomography or Magnetic resonance imaging equipments, the software generates virtual three-dimensional anatomical parts of the human body. InVesalius software was developed by CenPRA (Renato Archer Research Center), in Brazil and is available at no cost at the homepage of CenPRA’s Project for Fast Prototyping in Medicine. The software's interface is in Brazilian Portuguese; it was programmed using Python and works under Windows. It also uses graphic libraries VTK and ITK.

The software’s name is a tribute to Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), considered the "father of modern anatomy". Developed since 2001 for attending Brazilian Public Hospitals demands, InVesalius development was directed for promoting social inclusion of individuals with severe facial deformities. Since then, however, it has been employed in various research areas of dentistry, medicine, veterinary medicine, paleontology and anthropology. It has been used not only in public hospitals, but also in private clinics and hospitals.

As of 2007, the software had been downloaded by more than 1500 users and it had been employed in more than 700 patients, being used for generating rapid prototyping models of anatomical structures.

Links

 * Official Site (in Portuguese)
 * Confex.com (in English)

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