Any Dr. prepared to give me "scanner" images of human LIMBS?

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just "JR"

I am doing some preliminary research on "Morphology Replication of Human Limbs Prosthesis".
In (very) short:
- A human lost an arm
- I scan the remaining one
- I make a mirror image of it.
- I build the missing bones in titanium alloy (technically modified)
- I build the muscle structure using nanotube carbon fibres
- I build the skin tissue using DNA "spray"...
... more ...
- A surgeon "implants" the prothesis.
Already a 20 years dream.
Accepted as a PhD researcher with Coimbra University. Need concrete preliminary results to confirm research project.

Current problems:
- Get scanned image of human "arm" (from mid-humerus to finger tips), taken from standard medical scanners to convert these images into 3D models, where the exact sketelton can be extracted in 3D.
- Get existing programs that do the transformation (none found yet: medical scanners manufacturers are not prepared to share data)
- I can write and develop the program to do the conversion.
- Drs. use "Patient confidentiality" to refuse my request.
- I offer "my arm" for scanning, but I have to pay for it (tooooo much $)
Offers?
Solutions?
Images?
Thanks
(I'll put my research status on my site (http://www.web2coders.com/research - in a day or two, if I receive any answer)

Answer
This sounds pretty futuristic, and it will be hard to obtain images from "real" patients, because human subjects are (luckily) very protected for medical research. You would not want your medical scans and information to end up in the wrong hands either, for sure.

But I would assume that your project could work if you had a "general", average arm, wouldn't it?
Here is a website that seems to provide 3-D medical images. I am not a member of this site, and you'd have to pay for the images, but it would be a start.

http://www.medicalrf.com/
http://www.3d4medical.com/

Then, Stanford University in California does work on 3D medical images. You could try to contact them. Make sure to stress that you want de-identified images, so without ANY patient data. That might help you get what you need.
http://3dradiology.stanford.edu/

Good luck! I am not sure if this would work with the current technology. The " DNA spray" to make skin seems too futuristic for current techniques. Maybe your arm does not really need skin, most patients would already be happy with something that they can move. Have you thought about how a patient would move that artificial arm? I would guess that nerves, and the connection to the brain, are the most difficult step.

Any Dr. prepared to give me "scanner" images of human LIMBS?

just "JR"

Any Dr. prepared to give me "scanner" images of human LIMBS?
I am doing some preliminary research on "Morphology Replication of Human Limbs Prosthesis".
In (very) short:
- A human lost an arm
- I scan the remaining one
- I make a mirror image of it.
- I build the missing bones in titanium alloy (technically modified)
- I build the muscle structure using nanotube carbon fibres
- I build the skin tissue using DNA "spray"...
... more ...
- A surgeon "implants" the prothesis.
Already a 20 years dream.
Accepted as a PhD researcher with Coimbra University. Need concrete preliminary results to confirm research project.

Current problems:
- Get scanned image of human "arm" (from mid-humerus to finger tips), taken from standard medical scanners to convert these images into 3D models, where the exact sketelton can be extracted in 3D.
- Get existing programs that do the transformation (none found yet: medical scanners manufacturers are not prepared to share data)
- I can write and develop the program to do the conversion.
- Drs. use "Patient confidentiality" to refuse my request.
- I offer "my arm" for scanning, but I have to pay for it (tooooo much $)
Offers?
Solutions?
Images?
Thanks
(I'll put my research status on my site (http://www.web2coders.com/research - in a day or two, if I receive any answer)

Answer
You might get more response if you go visit a clinic or hospital in person.

Few of us here in "Computers & Internet" will have access to pictures of people's arms.

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