Digital Fish Library
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The Digital Fish Library (DFL), part of the National Science Foundation Biological Infrastructure (DBI) Initiative, creates and shares 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external anatomy of fishes using magnetic resonance imaging MRI.
The information core for the Digital Fish Library is generated using high-resolution MRI scanners at the University of California at San Diego. These instruments use magnetic fields to take 3D images of animal tissues, allowing researchers to non-invasively see inside them.
As of 2009, the Digital Fish Library contains approximately 300 species of marine and freshwater fish including representatives from all 4 Classes, 54 out of the 60 Orders and 191 of a total of 521 Families. The goal of the DFL is to image at least one representative in all 521 fish Families.
The MRI scanner is housed at the Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging multi-user facility at the University of California at San Diego and fish are imaging by scientists from the University of California San Diego Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging Facility (CSCI) .
References
- Nelson, Joseph S.(2006): 'Fishes of the World'. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471250317