Congratulations and thanks

Dear Colleagues I hope you do not mind this email appreciation but the efforts of some ynic staff are such that I would like to bring them to your attention. I would like to thank Andre Gouws, Paul Elliott, Ross Devlin, in particular, and the ynic team for their contributions to the Royal Academy of Engineering event that was hosted in York yesterday evening. Andre demonstrated the use of a hands-free kinect to virtually navigate throughout the brain (MRIs from ynic) and the ability to link the images to information pages. His stand attracted a considerable amount of attention and interest. The finale of the evening was a remarkable performance by an opera singer accompanying an organ. But the organ was not a standard one, it was a set of pipes whose shapes were generated from MRIs of the vocal tract of the player, Professor David Howard, of the 'human' organ. The remarkable quality of the sounds was due to the efforts Ross Devlin put into fine tuning the MRI data acquisition, the help that the ynic team gave David Howard's team and the very innovative analysis of the MRIs carried out in the Department of Electronics. I even think the Princess Royal enjoyed the novel use of MRI Gary -- --------------- Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg tel. Claire Fox : +44 (0) 1904 435329 Claire,Fox(a)ynic.york.ac.uk fax +44 (0) 1904 435356 mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004