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Digitisation and 3D reconstruction of 30 year old microscopic sections of human embryo, foetus and orbit
A collection of 2200 microscopic sections was recently recovered at
the Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute and the Department of Anatomy
and Embryology of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam. The sections
were created thirty years ago and constitute the largest and most detailed study of
human orbital anatomy to date. In order to preserve the collection, it was digitised.
This paper documents a practical approach to the automatic reconstruction of a 3-
D representation of the original objects from the digitised sections. To illustrate
the results of our approach, we show a multi-planar reconstruction and a 3-D
direct volume rendering of a reconstructed foetal head