

Nichole Rosenhagen facilitated communications among all these professionals. Bennett reviewed the work and requested that the “good” humerus be printed out for comparison.


Stephen Joslyn, who consulted from Australia, to “threshold” the data, that is, to tell the computer how to differentiate between “bone” and “not-bone” in the minutely nuanced information generated by the CT.īecause the fragmented nature of the injured bone did not yield a single shape that could be output by the printer, medical illustrator Janet Sinn-Hanlon was asked to use the more powerful software of her trade to manually thicken and link areas of bone. Nichole Rosenhagen is completing a yearlong internship as a wildlife veterinarian at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.įirst, the massive dataset from the spiral CT scan of the eagle had to be processed by veterinary radiologist Dr.
