The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Visible Human Project (VHP) 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 data sets were designed to serve as (1) a reference for the study of human anatomy, (2) public-domain data for testing medical imaging algorithms, and (3) a test bed and model for the construction of network-accessible image libraries. Here are a number of selected free sites, which utilize the VHP products:
- Complete 3D Model of the Human Body
- VHP: The University of Michigan - Visible Human data for health science students, clinicians, educators, and researchers. Novel 2D and 3D navigational browsers display Visible Human content in an educationally relevant manner, integrating digital anatomy for biomedical research and education.
- Guided Tour of the Visible Human - "This introduction and tour uses images from the VHP project to teach key concepts in human anatomy."
- Volview - "is an open source radiological viewer developed for clinical professionals. With VolView, you can have a deeper visual understanding of your data through interactive, cinematic volume rendering and easily visualize your DICOM data in 3D."
- Anatomical Images (The University of Utah) and Anatomy Quizzes
- Homo Sapiens Dissecatus - "A very comprehensive atlas of human gross anatomical sections basing on the high-resolution rescanned visible human male sections providing the corresponding CT- and MR-images, animations thereof as well as of 3D-reconstructions, X-ray images and a vocabulary of macroscopic anatomy."
- Touch of Life Technologies - Virtual experiences with real anatomy. Color photographic image data and cutting edge visualizations that bring the VHP content to life.
- Tools for use with the Visible Human Data Set
