Abstract Introduction The use of 3D imaging in the medical field has proven to be a benefit to doctors when diagnosing patients. As for different medical applications, 3D visualization systems have advantages in terms of a better spatial understanding of anatomical structures, better performance of tasks that require high level of dexterity, increased learning performance, and improved communications with patients or between doctors. Methods In this technical report, we show how to employ a multi-view autostereoscopic system to provide 3D images without any special glasses or equipment, describing a new way to obtain 3D visualization using sets of 2D images instead of real volumetric data such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT). We also propose an application of the images in neuroanatomy. Results We obtained three-dimensional images of anatomical parts for visualization without glasses with resolution of 336 × 210 pixels’. Conclusion The proposed method was able to generate three-dimensional high-resolution images and has great potential to be used in various areas such as anatomy and physiological studies.

Scientific research is essential to improve the quality of future specialists, due to the high rate of development of science and technology which professionals have to respond creatively to the problems of greatest relevance and importance. Developing scientific thinking is one of the purposes of Higher Education and it is responsibility of all the disciplines that compose a career. Among the main functions of a university professor is their ability to use the results of the research to form the student. The scientific research should be an academic requirement since the early years of career, as part of integral formation of students. This work shows the achieved results of the Physical discipline in the development of student scientific work with students of the Biomedical Engineering career at the Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, significantly increasing the number of students participating in scientific research and their motivation for this, the activity of independent and creative work and making the link between knowledge and practice as well as the integration with other disciplines of the career.

Para elevar la calidad de los futuros especialistas es imprescindible la investigación científica debido al elevado ritmo de desarrollo de la ciencia y la técnica que hace que los profesionales tengan que reaccionar de manera creadora ante los problemas de mayor actualidad e importancia. Desarrollar el pensamiento científico es una de las finalidades de la Educación Superior y es responsabilidad de todas las disciplinas que conforman una carrera. Entre las funciones principales de un profesor universitario está su capacidad para utilizar formativamente los resultados del trabajo de investigación. El trabajo científico investigativo debe ser una exigencia académica desde los primeros años de la carrera, como parte de la formación integral de los estudiantes. En el trabajo se muestran los resultados alcanzados por la disciplina Física en el desarrollo del trabajo científico estudiantil con los estudiantes de la carrera de Ingeniería Biomédica del Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, incrementándose considerablemente el número de estudiantes participando en la investigación científica y su motivación por ésta, la actividad de trabajo independiente y creadora y logrando la vinculación de los conocimientos con la práctica así como la integración con otras disciplinas de la carrera.