$ brain visualization
Brain images that hold up under scrutiny.
Scan-derived 3D models, interactive browser viewers, and anatomy figures, built by a neuroscientist who has spent twenty years reading the actual scans. Not stock anatomy with a red blob added.
$ the problem
Most brain graphics are a stock model with a red blob added.
That is fine for a poster. It is a liability when the other side has an expert, when an investor asks where the anatomy came from, or when a regulator wants to know how the region was defined.
What you usually get
- A generic brain illustration, identical across every case and client
- An artist's approximation of where the injury sits
- No traceable link between the image and the patient's own imaging
- Nobody who can explain the method when challenged
What I make
- A model built from the subject's own MRI, CT, or DTI
- Anatomy defined by published atlases and named parcellations
- A documented pipeline, reproducible from the source scan
- A PhD who can explain and defend every step of it
$ services
Three things I build.
Exhibits from the actual scan
Demonstratives for traumatic brain injury, stroke, and birth injury, rendered from the subject's own imaging rather than a generic model. Includes a written account of the method, in language a jury follows and an opposing expert cannot easily dismantle.
// litigationInteractive 3D viewers
A brain the viewer rotates, slices, and scrolls through, running in an ordinary browser with no plugin and no install. Drops into a pitch deck, a website, a training module, or a courtroom display. Most competitors can only hand you a flat image.
// neurotech, education, trialFigures and mechanism visuals
Anatomy and mechanism-of-action graphics for companies with a CNS product and no imaging staff. Investor decks, regulatory submissions, conference posters, and website assets, all anatomically defensible because the underlying data is real.
// biotech, medtech, medical education$ live demo
This is running in your browser right now.
Not a video, not a screenshot. A real volumetric MRI with a functional overlay, rendered client-side. Drag to move through slices, scroll to zoom. The same component embeds in a deck, a site, or an exhibit.
$ selected work
Work.
A sample across the range: surface rendering, lesion mapping, tumor segmentation, and quantitative imaging. Client work is shown with permission only.
$ who this is for
Who I work with.
Trial lawyers
Plaintiff-side brain injury, stroke misdiagnosis, and birth injury. Also testifying physicians who need a demonstrative built around their own opinion.
Neurotech and biotech
Seed through Series B companies with a CNS product, real funding, and nobody in the building who can render a brain.
Medical education
CME providers, device training programs, museums, and clinics producing patient-facing material that has to be accurate.
$ whoami
About.
Roger D. Newman-Norlund, PhD. Cognitive neuroscientist, PhD Dartmouth 2005. Twenty years in human neuroimaging, 90 peer-reviewed publications, over 4,660 citations, h-index 31.
Directed the McCausland Center for Brain Imaging from 2017 to 2026, running 3T MRI operations, protocol development, and scanner procurement. Directs the Aging Brain Cohort study and is co-investigator on two active NIH R01 grants.
The unusual part is the combination. Medical illustrators produce beautiful images but cannot process a scan. Engineers can process a scan but cannot tell you whether the anatomy is right. I do both, which means one person on the invoice and no gap between the picture and the science behind it.
Full academic profile and publication list: rnorlund.github.io
$ contact
Tell me what you need to show.
Describe the case or the product and what the viewer has to understand. I will tell you what is possible from the imaging you have, and what it costs, before you commit to anything.