Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 9 April 98

Foil 2 The Visible Human Project

From Medical Application in CIV Project Rome Laboratory CIV Final Review -- 9 April 98. by Marek Podgorny, Zeynep Ozdemir


Funded by the National Library of Medicine implemented at the University of Colorado 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.
Computer Tomography (CT - 512x512x12) - soft tissue and bones.
Anatomical color photographs - 1878 transverse slices, each 1 mm wide; each slice of original data is 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 reconstruction (cubic voxels, 0.33 mm size)



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