[13of40]

For anyone wanting to relive that experience, you should know that (in the US at least) you can go to the imaging department at the hospital and get all of that data on a CD, and there's some good free software to render it. I've got a 3D print of my head somewhere that I made from a CT scan.

[ttoinou]

Noo way? My CD only contains a bunch of jpeg from the slices. What file format did you get ?

[celdon25]

> some good free software to render it

Not going to share the name of it? :)

[echo_time]

If the images are in DICOM format, which is common, then dcm2niix should be able to convert them https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix

I think it can handle a few other formats as well. Once they are .nii(.gz) files, then mricrogl (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mricrogl) should be able to render it - of course, for a brain scan - this would be your whole head. Brain extraction is performed by more specialized software, but that would get you started.

[Workaccount2]

I did this and then realized I have no way of using a CD.

[sundarurfriend]

You can buy portable CD reader/writers for pretty cheap (that connect to a USB port).

[13of40]

When I did it, I got the guy in the office next to me to put his DVD drive on a file share so I could copy to modern media. That was probably at least four years ago, so not sure if I could do the same now.