Voxel-Man

VR Simulators for Medical Training

Head of the Visible Human (1995)

This page shows some of the early anatomical images created from the Visible Human data using the Voxel-Man visualization system.

Muscles of the Visible Human's headVirtual dissection of the Visible Humans's headDissection of the Visible Human's brainWhite matter of the Visible Human's brain seen from below

Leonardo

Dissection of the Visible Human's head with some of Leonardo's anatomical drawingsSkull base and optic nerves of the Visible Human with corresponding anatomical drawings by Leonardo da Vinci

Imaging Modalities

Imaging modalities such as CT, MRI and x-ray show different aspects of the Visible Human's anatomy

Red/Green Stereo

Dissection of the Visible Human's head in red/green stereoDissection of the Visible Human's braiin in red/green stereoDepth perception can be enhanced by a stereogram of the image. These pictures should be viewed with red/green glasses. Colors are lost, though, when using this method.

References

  1. Thomas Schiemann, Ulf Tiede, Karl Heinz Höhne: Segmentation of the Visible Human for high-quality volume-based visualization. Medical Image Analysis 1, 4 (1997), 263-271.
  2. Ulf Tiede, Thomas Schiemann, Karl Heinz Höhne: Visualizing the Visible Human. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 16, 1 (1996), 7-9.

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