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A
Guided Tour to the Visible Human
The Visible Human Project consists of
some 9000 digitized sections of the body. The animations and images in
this tour use some of these sections to demonstrate the planes of section,
and how the two-dimensional images provide a unique means of studying the
three-dimensional anatomy of the human body.
Topics include:
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Cross-sectional Anatomy: Using 2D images to
visualize 3D structures.
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Planes of Section, with animations: An introduction
to the three planes of section.
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Interactive Annotations: A clickable interface
that tells you about anatomical features in the picture. Available images
may be searched for specific structures (experimental):
Transverse sections presented in these pages
derive from a copy of the Visible Man dataset maintained at Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. Sagittal and coronal sections
are used with permission of the NPAC Project. Animations and the software
running the interfaces for the annotated images were created by (me) Lynn
Bry, an MD/PhD student at Washington University. Further details concerning
the Visible Human may be found at the National Library of Medicine. |
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