Visible Human Project

Cryosection through the head of a human male

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. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which these findings link anatomy to its audiences.[1] 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 (NLM) under the direction of Michael J. Ackerman. Planning began in 1986;[2] 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 NLM in Bethesda, Maryland.[3] There are currently efforts to repeat this project with higher resolution images but only with parts of the body instead of a cadaver.

  1. ^ Waldby, Catherine (September 2003). The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine. Routledge. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-203-36063-7. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. ^ Burke, L., & Weill, B. (2009). Chapter 10. Information technology for the health professions (3rd ed., p. 212). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall.
  3. ^ "The Visible Humans | NIH MedlinePlus the Magazine". medlineplus.gov. Retrieved 2019-01-18.