The Third Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings

Introduction

In order to better capture the presentations given at the Conference, each presenter was asked to provide up to 20 megabytes of multimedia information in web accessible format, that would be representative of their presentation. The information could include text, pictures, movies and programs in any combination. The concept was to go beyond the limitations of the printed page. All materials submitted had to be based on commonly used World Wide Web file formats. The information was collected and edited for the CD-ROM by Mr. Richard A. Banvard of the National Library of Medicine. The format is based on that developed in collaboration with Prof. Francesco Pinciroli and Mr. Pietro Cerveri of the Politecnico de Milano, Italy, for the Second Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings. Once again we offer our thanks to Prof. Pinciroli and Mr. Cerveri for their creative thoughts and expertise.

We sincerely hope you enjoy your virtual visit with us.

Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Project Officer and Program Co-chair

Richard A. Banvard
Program Co-chair

For additional information, see the National Library of Medicine's Current Bibliographies in Medicine 2000-5, Visible Human Project or visit our Visible Human Project website.

Contacts

About This CD-ROM

• Links appearing on the CD-ROM that connect to locations external to CD-ROM (e.g. mailto: and http:) have been italicized to identify them as external. These links will only be accessible if the user's browser is connected to the Internet, and the user should be aware that such links are subject to change. Any such changes cannot be implemented on the CD-ROM. External links were checked during the editing process, but may or may not remain valid..

• Navigation aids (buttons and/or text links) have been provided to facilitate browsing the contents of the CD-ROM. In cases where multiple link points are possible (e.g. reference citations that appear in a paper multiple times), no such aids are provided. When this occurs, use the browser's Back feature to return to the previously viewed page. This can be done with the Back button on the tool bar, or with a click of the right mouse button.

• In order to view all of the resources on the CD-ROM your browser must be enabled to read the following file types:
  

    .avi  (MicroSoft movie)
    .gif  (Image)
    .jpg  (JPEG image)
    .mov  (QuickTime movie)
    .mpg  (MPEG movie) 
    .pdf  (Portable Document Format)
    .wrl  (Virtual Reality Modeling Language(VRML))
  

• The complete proceedings for the two previous Visible Human Project Conferences (1996 and 1998) are included on this CD-ROM. Links between the three proceedings can be found on their respective title page.

• In the event a final paper was not submitted, a copy of the absrtact was used.