

Not only does this let me use my creative talents on a daily basis, but I am constantly learning new material as I become involved in different projects." "To me these subjects are symbiotic, and therefore medical illustration seemed like a great path forward for my career. "I have always gravitated towards art and science," Kulaga said. ARL develops custom medical art and illustrations to help analysts visualize, archive and communicate pertinent information about injuries. Also, customers served by the ARL Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate, known as ARL-SLAD, are often not experts in anatomy, and benefit from illustrations to understand and analyze the injury depicted. They also sometimes reveal personally identifying features. Scans do not necessarily highlight the injury of interest and, as a result, include unnecessary information such as unaffected body tissue and non-related injuries. All of these are used to clearly and succinctly communicate and visualize the injuries sustained.ĭepicting injuries is not always easy using injury photographs and medical imaging, such as computerized tomography, or CT, scans. She uses CT scans to create a variety of 2-D and 3-D medical illustrations and animations, other graphic designs, data visualizations and 3-D models. Army Research Laboratory.Īutumn Kulaga is a biomedical illustrator at ARL. Army) VIEW ORIGINALĪBERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD (October 27, 2015) - An Army artist is making a difference at the U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 4 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S.

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