Phineas Gage Lifecast (lifemask) by LabsOfCognitiveNeuroscience

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Lifecast of Phineas Gage, who famously survived having a tamping iron go through his frontal lobe during an accident.
This was converted to a printable format, and you can see that the plaster is uneven in places and it should probably be thinned out. I am still working on getting a good thin version of this to work, but felt that at least this model should be made available.
This work is a derivative of the CT scan made of the Phineas Gage lifemask done by Peter Ratiu and is being shared with the kind permission of the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library.
This model was created by Graham Holt at the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
at Boston Children’s Hospital using 3DSlicer , MeshLab and NetFabb Basic
Acknowledgements:
I’d like to thank the following individuals for making this project possible:
Brian Blackwell- Phineas Gage Super Fan and the one that brought the existence of the life cast scan to my attention. Brian did most of the legwork in tracking down the author (John Darrell Van Horn) that mentioned the scan in Mapping Connectivity Damage in the Case of Phineas Gage, and following that thread to the source of the file.
Dominic Hall- Curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum for providing the source file and for his kind permission to post this model.
Peter Ratiu- First author of The tale of Phineas Gage, digitally remastered, for his efforts to scan and explore this fascinating artifact as well as for his thoughts regarding this project.