Abdominal Aortic Anyerism Project

Over the summer of 1999 to 2000, one was granted the unique opportunity to be employed by the division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics within CSIRO as part of the Vacation Scholarship program. Under the supervision of Laurie Wilson of at Image and Signal Processing, I was lucky enough to undertake two exciting and rewarding projects that expanded my horizons and my way of thinking.

The Telecommunications and Industrial Physics (TIP) division in CSIRO is based in Sydney, at two sites; namely its base at Marsfield and the National Measurement Laboratory at Lindfield. The Marsfield site is shared with the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) and the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO). TIP deals with many varied aspects of Telecommunications and Physics, from antenna research to research into Medical Imaging. The division developed products traditionally on a pure research basis; however, now sells to a huge commercial market, with its cutting edge technology sold and used all over all over the world.

My main project was based within the 'Image and Signal Processing' (ISP) discipline and primarily involved developing a set of tools and for Medical Imaging visualisation, under the supervision of Laurie Wilson of that discipline.

CSIRO has a wide range of products and services available; its diversity in its research is hard to get a clear picture on and to the public seems to be largely mysterious and enormous organisation. To better deal with this, the CSIRO is opening a 'Discovery Centre' in Canberra later this year.

One of the primary goals of my work was to showcase one of the tools developed to visualise aortic aneurysms based on CT data in a series of short videos (about two to three minutes in length). As part of this, a set of visualisation tools were developed using a wide variety of software and hardware.

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