Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Holographic movies show promise for medical, military applications

Holographic movies show promise for medical, military applications: "DALLAS - June 14, 2005 - In a small research laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a grainy, red movie of circling fighter jets emerges from a table-top black box, while nearby, a video of a rotating human heart hangs suspended in a tank of gooey gel.

These images - the first true, three-dimensional, holographic movies - are the brainchild of Dr. Harold 'Skip' Garner, professor of biochemistry and internal medicine at UT Southwestern.

While such movies will not be coming soon to a theater near you, they have earned Dr. Garner and his 'holographic television' a spot on Popular Science magazine's list of the top five 'great ideas for the future,' featured in the June 2005 issue."

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