I had a CT scan done of my abdomen a year ago and received a cd from the doctor full of images of, well... my guts. The CT scan took 81 cross section images of my abdomen and then a full body scan. The bone was clearly white and visible in each image. I printed out each cross section image and determined how much distance was in between each image using the number of slices and the distance the scanning took place. The result was about half a centimeter.
Then I measured the waist size on the print outs (which were smaller than actual size) and measured my actual waist size at the corresponding position. I found a scaling factor and used that factor to find out how thick each bone slice would have to be to reproduce a correctly proportioned miniature pelvis. It turns out the slices were 2 mm, exactly the thickness of my matte board I used for many projects. SO I used that to build a miniature version of my own pelvis.
I glued each of the 81 images to piece of matte board and cut out the bone section and glued them together layer by layer using the images to help me guide the positioning.
THE RESULTS:
The full model is about 3 inches tall and can fit in the palm of your hand. This was an entire summer project. Created Summer of 2009. It now has a home on a bookshelf in my apartment.
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