The Visible Human Project
The Visible Human Project
- Funded by the National Library of Medicine implemented at the University of Coloradio HSC.
- 39 - year old white male who donated his body to science after being convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
- Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI - 256x256x12) - head scanned axially, the other sections scanned coronally.
- Computed Tomography (CT - 512x512x12) - soft tissue and bones.
- Anatomical color photographs - 1878 transverse slices, each 1 milimeter wide; Each slice of the original data is in a 2048x1216 pixel 24-bit color image.
- NPAC has obtained a copy of the Visible Human data set 14GB and
- license to use it.
- Female VH not downloaded : 5,000 cross sections (40 GB). Good for 3D reconstructions (cubic voxels, 0.33mm size).