Abstract: A method of digital image mapping includes utilizing a digitized image, morphing this image or tessellated regions of this image, and rearranging the resulting morphed image or image regions to produce a new image for printing on flexible media, such as paper, so that when a three-dimensional origami-like object is constructed from this media and it is viewed from a particular direction then the viewer observes the original image.

Abstract: This invention involves apparatus and methods for relating image scan data of a patient's anatomy from an imaging scanner to a device attached to said patient's anatomy or to an apparatus located nearby said patient's anatomy. In one embodiment it includes identification of fiducial points or markers on or near the patient's anatomy in the image scan data, and subsequently relating these fiducial points to reference points or structures connected to an apparatus attached to or nearby the patient's body. Such an apparatus might be a surgical head clamp or stereotactic frame or arc which has been attached to the patient's head at the time of surgery. A mapping is made between the coordinate frame data of the scan image to the coordinate reference frame of the patient attachment means or external apparatus by physically referencing the fiducial points to the patient attachment means or external apparatus.