Digital Fish Library
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Scientists at University of California, San Deigo and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are using Magnetic Resonance Imaging to create digital anatomic representations of the 2 million specimens in the institution's Marine Vertebrate Collection. The collection contains about 5,700 species of salt- and freshwater fish from around the world, and the project will eventually offer the MRI data from its web site: digitalfishlibrary.org.
This project will advance the ability of MRI to scan a wider variety of shapes, structures, and tissue types, as the MRI tools in use today are primarily designed for humans. New tools, such as magnetic coils specifically sized for various fish will be developed as part of this project.
