Visible Human Project

Description

The NLM Visible Human Project® has created publicly-available complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of a human male body and a human female body. Specifically, the VHP provides a public-domain library of cross-sectional cryosection, CT, and MRI images obtained from one male cadaver and one female cadaver. The Visible Man data set was publicly released in 1994 and the Visible Woman in 1995. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

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21 The Visible Human Project Sample Data contains the following sample images: CT scans after freezing, CT scans prior to freezing, Five slices from the Visible Female, Six slices from the Visible Male, MRI-MaleHead, MRI-MaleThorax, MRI-MaleAbdomen, MRI-MalePelvis, MRI-MaleThigh, MRI-MaleFeet. https://data.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/public/Visible-Human/Sample-Data/index.html
21 The Visible Human Female data set has the same characteristics as the Visible Human Male. However, the axial anatomical images were obtained at 0.33 mm intervals. Spacing in the “Z” dimension was reduced to 0.33mm in order to match the 0.33mm pixel sizing in the “X-Y” plane. As a result, developers interested in three-dimensional reconstructions are able to work with cubic voxels. There are 5,189 anatomical images in the Visible Human Female data set. The data set size is approximately 40 gigabytes. https://data.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/public/Visible-Human/Female-Images/index.html
21 The Visible Human Male data set consists of MRI, CT, and anatomical images. Axial MRI images of the head and neck, and longitudinal sections of the rest of the body were obtained at 4mm intervals. The MRI images are 256 by 256 pixel resolution with each pixel made up of 12 bits of gray tone. The CT data consist of axial CT scans of the entire body taken at 1mm intervals at a pixel resolution of 512 by 512 with each pixel made up of 12 bits of gray tone. The approximately 7.5 megabyte axial anatomical images are 2048 pixels by 1216 pixels, with each pixel being .33mm in size, and defined by 24 bits of color. The anatomical cross-sections are at 1mm intervals to coincide with the CT images. There are 1,871 cross-sections for both CT and anatomical images. The complete male data set is approximately 15 gigabytes. https://data.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/public/Visible-Human/Male-Images/index.html
21 Data is the head of a 72 year old male donor. The donor was preserved in formalin and the blood vessels were filled with araldite-F. Before freezing, MRI and CAT imaging was preformed. After freezing the specimen was cryo sectioned at 0.147mm intervals and digital photographs were taken with a resolution of 1056 x 1528 pixels. https://data.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/public/Visible-Human/Additional-Head-Images/index.html

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  • anatomy
  • images
  • dataset
  • medical-imaging
  • data-distribution

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