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Museum staff are also continuing to explore new types of medical imaging. These capabilities are enhanced by the Museum's unique position as a branch of the AFIP, a clinical setting where cutting-edge medical technology assists in pathological diagnoses. The Museum's Human Developmental Anatomy Center, a repository for human and comparative embryologic materials, has developed techniques for generating three-dimensional computer reconstructions based on thousands of microscopic sections. Using these techniques, staff are returning contemporary research value to historical Museum objects. The Center serves as a central repository for electronic information by making these images available electronically. |