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The website notes that what they have are "NOT for human consumption". Is it safe or is it different than what one would use for recreational purposes?
As you mentioned, it looks like it will be difficult to get a referral for a full-body scan as a healthy person :\
Nonetheless, I found your explanation on printing such objects really helpful and the tutorials for 3D Slicer you've linked are really cool. While fully body scan looks impossible, I was involved in an accident several years ago and the hospital had taken CT scans of my brain to ensure it wasn't damaged. I will visit them to check if they can share the DICOM data of that scan (if they even have it by now) and will try to process it with 3D Slicer.
As you mentioned, it seems like it will be hard to get a referral for a full-body CT scan as a healthy person. The costs of scans also look pretty steep to quench a curiosity thirst :/
Nevertheless, I appreciate you sharing this knowledge and will try to print a segmented skull to understand the process better.
From my light research, it seems that obtaining such scan would be costly ($1k-$5k price range for full body scan without a health insurance).
I will reach out to local universities to check if they can aid me in this or if I can do this over time, piece by piece.
Although there are readily available skeletons for purchase, I want to print my own skeleton for "profiling and debugging" purposes :)