This project was developed by Dr. Maureen Stabio, a neuroscience professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who acquired a 7 Tesla MRI of her own brain to be used for education and medical simulation. She teamed up with graduate student Emily Mastej who built 3D models of internal brain structures by manual segmentation in Slicer. The objects can be toggled on and off and zoomed in and out, while the brain is sliced in any canonical plane. The efficacy of this teaching approach for training medical students to read MRIs of the brain was evaluated among first year medical students and published in Anatomical Sciences Education (Drapkin et al., 2015). The study showed that this method improves students’ ability to identify structures (particularly complex c-shaped structures) on a 2D MRI slice compared to conventional teaching tools.
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System Requirements
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 10 macOS 11 | Microsoft Windows 11 macOS 14 |
| Architecture | Windows: x86-64 macOS: x86-64, ARM64 | |
| Processor | Intel 4th Generation i5 | Intel 6th Generation i7, Apple M1 |
| Memory | 8GB of RAM | 16GB of RAM |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 4600 2GB VRAM*** | Intel Iris Graphics 540 2GB VRAM*** |
| Graphics API | Windows: Direct3D Feature Level 11_0 macOS: Metal**** | |
| Storage | 1GB of available hard-disk space | |
| Network | Internet connection for installation, activation and lesson access | |
*** VRAM can be dedicated or shared system memory
**** List of macOS computers supporting Metal: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205073