The Visible Human Project
Projects Based on the Visible Human Data Set
Sources of images and animations
- eMedTool- "dissection" and rotation of body regions and systems using mouse control, from Merck Medicus.
- Virtual Reality in medicine Fly- through examples from the Female dataset appearing in "Virtual Reality in medicine", BMJ 1999, 319: 1305 (13 November), by Szekely and Satava.
- Marching Through the Visible Man (paper written by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).
- Marching Through the Visible Woman. (companion paper by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).
- 3D Virtual Colonoscopy (static images and fly-through animations from the Departments of Radiology and Computer Science at SUNY Stony Brook).
- Visible Human Research (Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; includes renderings and animations based upon CT and RGB data from both the male and female datasets).
- A Guided Tour of the Visible Human (Washington University Medical School - The MAD Scientist Network).
- The Virtual Human (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago).
- The Vesalius Project (Creating a Computer-Based Anatomy Curriculum - Columbia University).
- Computer Graphics and Medicine (MIRALab - University of Geneva)
- MPIRE (Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment - an interactive, distributed, direct volume rendering system for Cray T3D, Cray T3E, or SGI workstations, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center).
- Voxel- Man Gallery ( images and animations of the torso from the University of Hamburg).
- U-SCALE Computer Aided Learning Environment for Human Gross Anatomy Project (DEMO from the University of Saskatchewan - Netscape or Internet Explorer 4.x: Java and javascript enabled, and accepting cookies).
- The Virtual Anatomy Explorer (3D VRML browsing prototypes from the University Clinic Giessen, Germany - Cosmo player recommended for VRML viewing).
- The Visible Human Project-Reduced Data Sets (Normal [Fresh] CT scan data sets for both the male and female in reduced resolution - the University of Wisconsin).
- 3D Anatomy for Medical Students (interactive VRML models, with contol for structure displayed, transparency, labels, embedded images, etc. - McGill University).
- daVinci (prototype simulator for performing vascular catherterization and interventional radiology procedures - Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore).
- Animating the Visible Human Data Set (Rutgers University, VIZLAB).
- Peel-away Visible Human Movies for the Palm Pilot (Medical Multimedia Systems).
Last reviewed: 12 March 2009
Last updated: 12 March 2009
First published: 25 September 2001
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