Visible Human Project

The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. A male and a female cadaver were cut into thin slices which were then photographed and digitized. The project is run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine under the direction of Michael J. Ackerman. Planning began in 1989; the data set of the male was completed in November 1994 and the one of the female in November 1995. The project can be viewed today at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC. There are currently efforts to repeat this project with higher resolution images but only with parts of the body instead of a cadaver. (From the Wikpedia article Visible Human Project.)

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Recent Publications on Visible Human Project:
Generating useful images for medical applications from the Visible Korean Human. For the Visible Korean Human (VKH), a male cadaver was serially ground off...	11th September, 2008	Department of Anatomy, Dongguk University College of Medicine, 707	Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2008 Dec;92(3):257-66. Epub 2008 Sep 7. DOI Direct Link
Development and validation of subject-specific finite element models for blunt trauma study. This study developed and validated finite element (FE) models of swine and...	19th August, 2008	SET Division, L-3 Jaycor, 3394 Carmel Mountain Road, San Diego, CA 92121,	J Biomech Eng. 2008 Apr;130(2):021022. DOI Direct Link
Anatomically realistic three-dimensional meshes of the pelvic floor & anal canal for finite element analysis. Three anatomically realistic meshes, suitable for finite element analysis,...	5th June, 2008	Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019,	Ann Biomed Eng. 2008 Jun;36(6):1060-71. Epub 2008 Mar 4. DOI Direct Link
Quantification of lung injury using ventilation and perfusion distributions obtained from gamma scintigraphy. This paper explores the potential of isotope V/Q lung scans to quantify...	5th April, 2008	School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, University	Physiol Meas. 2007 Dec;28(12):1451-64. Epub 2007 Oct 31. DOI Direct Link
A study of prostate delineation referenced against a gold standard created from the visible human data. PURPOSE: To measure inter- and intra-observer variation and systematic...	2nd April, 2008	Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.	Radiother Oncol. 2007 Nov;85(2):239-46. Epub 2007 Sep 6. DOI Direct Link
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Visible Human Project Patents:
US Patent No.	Title
7404716	Interface apparatus with cable-driven force feedback and four grounded actuators
6839663	Haptic rendering of volumetric soft-bodies objects
6693964	Methods and arrangements for compressing image based rendering data using multiple reference frame prediction techniques that support just-in-time rendering of an image
6650338	Haptic interaction with video and image data
6616701	Method and apparatus for identifying features of multidimensional image data in hypermedia systems
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Companies working in the area of Visible Human Project from Bioportfolio's Biocorporate database :
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Visible Productions Visible Productions, Inc., a Colorado corporation, was formed in January 1996 by the merger of Micron Biosystems, Inc. and BioGraphics, Inc. This merger combined the assets of Micron's five years of... www.visiblep.com/        View full profile

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