AnatQuest Browser FAQ
This page contains answers to the following questions:
Browsers and Databases
What is AnatQuest?
What is the Visible Human?
What is AnatLine?
Images
Does AnatQuest serve all or part of of the Visible Human images?
What are the types of images contained in AnatQuest?
What are cross section images?
What are rendered images?
How many rendered images are in AnatQuest?
Viewers
What is a "viewer"?
What is the "rendered image viewer"?
What is the "cut-away viewer"?
What is the "detailed image viewer"?
Views
What is an "axial view"?
What is a "coronal view"?
What is a "sagittal view"?
Browsing and Navigation
How to look for a rendered anatomical object?
How to save or print an image?
How to locate a cut away view?
What is a selection box?
What are the horizontal and vertical selection lines?
How to reposition a selection box?
How to reposition a selection line?
Viewer Option Settings
How to adjust the detailed window size?
What are the detailed window sizes?
How to adjust the compression ratio for images?
What are the image compression choices?
Miscellaneous
Why can't I find all rendered images of the body in the database?
Why do the viewers stop functioning?
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Last modified: Fri May 31 15:04:55 EDT 2002
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What is AnatQuest?
AnatQuest is a web-based interface for viewing high resolution
Visible Human anatomical images. These 4096 by 2700 24bit
images are created by scanning the 70 mm photographs taken of
each slice during the cryosectioning of the human
cadavers. AnatQuest provides viewers for rendered anatomical
organs and the cut away slices of the body. AnatQuest allows
browsing over images through an adjustable size viewing area,
downloading portions of the 33-meg image slices to the browser
as needed, thereby making it feasible to view the images even
over slow Internet connections.
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What is the Visible Human?
It is a project for the creation of complete, anatomically
detailed, image representations of the normal male and female
human bodies. It consists of transverse CT, MR and cryosection
color images of representative male and female cadavers. The male
was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third
of a millimeter intervals. More detailed information is at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
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What is AnatLine?
AnatLine is a web-based interface for retrieval and downloading of the high
resolution Visible Male image files, the segmented image overlays, and their
anatomical labels; all bundled using an in-house file format. For more detailed
information look at:
http://anatquest.nlm.nih.gov/Anatline/GenInfo/index.html