Collected by: National Library of Medicine

Archived since: May, 2017

Description:

The 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. 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. The data sets were designed to serve as a reference for the study of human anatomy, public-domain data for testing medical imaging algorithms, and a test bed and model for the construction of network-accessible image libraries. The VHP data sets have been applied to a wide range of educational, diagnostic, treatment planning, virtual reality, artistic, mathematical, and industrial uses.