Abstract
For an investment of only US$1·4 million, the Visible Human Project of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM; Bethesda, MD, USA) has produced a seemingly limitless resource. “The original expectation was that half a dozen publishers would produce some multimedia augmentation to textbooks, allowing one to do 3D [three-dimensional] anatomy”, says Michael Ackerman, NLM project officer for the Visible Human Project. Instead, more than 1000 firms, universities, and hospitals worldwide have licensed the 55 gigabyte data-set produced by photographing horizontal sections of a frozen male body taken every 1 mm (figures) and of a female body taken every 1/3 mm. The data set also includes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans done before the bodies were frozen.
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