From: Scott Jacoves Subject: APPS: Looking for a visual neurology model. Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 23:36:59 -0400 Message-ID: <325334DB.750@credit.erin.utoronto.ca> Organization: Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada Hello. I'm a graduate student studying insect neuroethology. One of the projects that I would like to instigate is a detailed anatomical model of the nervous systems of several species of moth. Ideally, this is what I would like to do: Backfill and trace a efferent pathway, such as the ears. The ganglion is then serial sectioned, and microscope imaged are digitized. Resolution for these pictures would be down to the scale of 10 micrometers, and less if I use an electron microscope. These images are fed into a three dimensional model, which I then use for targeting decisions for interneural labeling. The process repeats, ad infinitum or until my grant runs out, with the end product of a fairly comprehensive and detailed anatomical map of at least the efferent and afferent aspects of the insect's neural system. Does anyone have any suggestions for a graphical package that is up to the processing task for this? Any assistance whatsoever would be _greatly_ appreciated. Danka. Scott