Short: Pictures from the Visible Human Project Uploader: cg amiga oth uni-siegen de (Christoph Guelicher) Type: pix/misc Architecture: generic The current effort under the Visible Human Project is the acquisition of transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of a representative male and female cadaver at an average of one millimeter intervals. The corresponding transverse sections in each of the three modalities are to be registered with one another. A contract for acquisition of these pixel-based data was awarded in August 1991 to the University of Colorado at Denver. Victor M. Spitzer, Ph.D. and David G. Whitlock, M.D., Ph.D. are the principal investigators. The Visible Human data set will comprise approximately 42 gigabytes of pixel data (uncompressed), which would correspond to about 70 CD-ROMs. The digital cross-sectional images would most likely be made available via the Internet. The image database is publicly available November 1, 1994. It consists of 1,878 CT scans, all 1mm thick and on 1mm centers and congruent photographs of the same slices. These photographs were obtained by sectioning the body at 1mm increments and capturing a 2048 x 1216 digital image in 24-bit color at every level. These images have been registered and therefore, can be restacked to define the human body at every location in space with 1mm voxels. The voxels have attributes of red, green and blue color in addition to the electron density provided by the CT images. I found the WWW-server of the Visible Human Project very interesting but also crowded. So I decided to upload the stuff I received from there to aminet, to give scientifically ;-) interested people without international ftp/www access the opportunity to watch that stuff. // Christoph Guelicher, Dohlenweg 4, D-57078 Siegen CG@winfcg.swb.de \X/ Universitaet Siegen, FTS, D-57068 Siegen CG@hrz.uni-siegen.d400.de