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Foil 21 A4 - The Visible Human Project

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Second Quaterly Review Review Meeting at NPAC -- 18 March 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

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
  • Density of the voxel represents an aggregate of several magnetic properties of the tissue molecules within the voxel
Computed Tomography (CT - 512x512x12) - soft tissue and bones
  • Attenuation of X-rays passing through the voxel (tissue)
Anatomical color photographs - 1878 transverse slices, each 1 millimeter wide; Each slice of the original data is a 2048 x 1216 pixel 24-bit color image
NPAC has obtained a copy of the Visible Human data set 14GB (FTP:// nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov) and license to use
Female not downloaded: 5,000 cross sections ( 40 gigabytes) - good for three-dimensional reconstructions (cubic voxels): slices and resolution - 0.33 mm



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