InVesalius
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InVesalius is a free software used to reconstruct structures of the human body in three dimensions in the computer, generating tri-dimensional virtual models of structures of the human body from images obtained in computerized tomographies and magnetic resonance imaging. It was developed by CenPRA (Renato Archer Research Center), in Brazil and is available at no cost at the homepage of CenPRA’s Project for Fast Prototyping in Medicine. The software's interface is in Brazilian Portuguese; it was codeded using Python and works under Windows and Linux. It also uses graphic libraries VTK™ and ITK™, as well the C++ one. The software’s name is a tribute to Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), considered the "father of modern anatomy". According to Ailton Santa Bárbara, a researcher from the CenPRA, the option for free distribution took into account the context of public health in Brazil, which lacks technological renovation and financial resources: "The software was directed at first to public university hospitals, where there’s more need for it, in order to promote the social inclusion of individuals with, for example, severe facial deformities. (...) Today, InVesalius is also used in schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Veterinary, in private clinics and hospitals, and at Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum — where it is used to model and study mummies and fossils", says the researcher.
