Actually the radiologists who manage CT and PET scans of brains do have
a solution, called DICOM, see http://medical.nema.org/. If we work
together as a community we should be able to do as well as the
rocket scientists and the brain surgeons' radiologists, perhaps even
better. -- Herbert
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Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Apparently it DOES take a rocket scientist to solve this problem. Maybe the
> brain surgeons also have a solution?
>
> JPK
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaas Decanniere"
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] images
>
>
>> Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:
>>
>> Other sciences have struggled with this and seem to have found an answer.
>> Have e.g. a look at http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits.html
>>
>> kind regards,
>>
>> Klaas
>>
>>>
>>> This is a good time to start a major crystallogrpahic image
>>> archiving effort. Money may well be available now that will not be
>>> avialable six month from now, and we have good, if not perfect,
>>> solutions available for many, if not all, of the technical issues
>>> involved. Is it really wise to let this opportunity pass us by?
>>>
>>>>> The deposition of images would be possible providing some consistent
>>>>> imagecif format was agreed.
>>>>> This would of course be of great use to developers for certain
>>>>> pathological cases, but not I suspect much value to the user
>>>>> community - I down load structure factors all the time for test
>>>>> purposes but I probably would not bother to go through the data
>>>>> processing, and unless there were extensive notes associated with
>>>>> each set of images I suspect it would be hard to reproduce sensible
>>>>> results.
>>>>>
>>
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