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#Pricing Mesh's

    16-Jun-94 22:32:35
Sb: #108197-#Pricing Mesh's
To: Paul Lind 71543,2104
I certainly would like to talk with you in more detail regarding what you are doing. In terms of high resolution of the skeleton, after critically looking at them from a medical standpoint they are not ANATOMICALLY accurate. Let me give you an example. You mentioned that your skull is high definition with all the ridges, can you accurately discern where the nasal bone is?, can you see where the inferior orbital fissure is? looking directly into the eye socket can you see the 1)posterior ethmoidal crest? 2)inferior orbital fissure? Is your skull scanned as one whole object? Did you know the skull consists of 22 bones? Its these little things which make the difference. In terms of how I know its because I'm a Neurologist and have access to many of the high tech toys and the availability of neuroradiologists. Also, I am working with the University of Washington and they are one of the top schools in the country when it comes to visualization, and they dont have any high rez skeletons. I am not directly doing the scanning so I cant give you all the technical details. One last thing and I hope this isnt too sensitive an issue. You mentioned you have seen skeletons from low rez of Viewpoints to high rez. I looked critically at viewpoints and felt it did not meet my needs, the last price I have of there skeleton high rez is 5K. You can purchase, if you can find one, a HUMAN skeleton for about 3K and from thoughts on the future of VIRTUAL REALITY etc, is that virtual reality will still be for people who cant afford the REAL thing!. This gets back to my original question about how do you fairly price these things. Lastly do you have a number or address? Thanks Sam