Visible Human Project ® from the National Library of Medicine

Tools for Use with the Visible Human Data Set

Applications for Viewing Images

Sources of Images and Animations

Products

Tools for Use with the Visible Human Data Set

• Surfdriver - a simple 3D reconstruction package for the PowerMac and Windows95, for rendering 3D models of anatomica structures.

• The Visualization Toolkit - a C++ class library, and Tcl implementation based on the class library.

• Splatter - for interactive, direct volume rendering of large data sets on Cray T3E supercomputers.

• eTDIPS, Vortex, Skeleton climbing, and Mutability - volume rendering, animation, surface-extraction, texture manipulation and shape changing tools from the National Institutes of Health.

• Image FX Loaders for the Amiga, from young monkey studios.

• Microvision II - a free package for 3D rendering of image data on Silicon Graphics computers, from Fairfield Imaging.

• PC-VolumeViewer - Windows 9x/NT DLL supporting real-time, direct volume rendering for medical imaging and multimedia software.

• SERA - Simulation Environment for Radiotherapy - computational dosimetry and treatment planning software, primarily for neutron radiotherapy.

• UltraVis - free software for volume rendering on PCs, provided by Hewlett-Packard Labs.

• ezDICOM - free software to display most medical images: MRI, CT, X-ray, and ultrasound.

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Applications for Viewing Images

• Net Anatomy Multi-modal anatomy teaching tool from Scholar Educational Systems, Inc.

• virtusMed an interactive computer system designed for teaching anatomy and medical imaging procedures such as ultrasound.

• The NPAC Visible Human Viewer, developed at Syracuse University, is a Java applet that allows one to extract planar views of the Visible Human male dataset (requires a Java enabled Web client).

• The NPAC 3D Visible Human Viewer, under development at Syracuse University, is a VRML application that allows one to extract axial views of the Visible Human male dataset (requires a VRML enabled Web client).

• Visible Human Explorer, produced by a collaboration between NLM and the University of Maryland (a fast X-Windows data viewer that requires a Sun workstation with at least 30MB of disk space).

• The Cross Sectional Anatomy viewer from Loyola University (Chicago) Stritch School of Medicine.

• The Digital Anatomy Lab, 2D and 3D browsing of CT and anatomical sections using a graphical browser or forms based input - from the Queensland University of Technology (Australia).

• Visible Human Female Head and Pelvis Browsers from the University of Michigan's Digital Microscopy and Scientific Visualization Laboratory (requires a Java enabled Web client).

• Workshop Anatomy for the Internet (WAI) from the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Labeled and unlabeled cryosections, correlated CT - MR images, animations, and a vocabulary of gross anatomy.

• Visible Human Male from the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center. Sample images, reconstructions and animations, browser, products and labeled images.

• Visible Human Female from the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center. Sample images, products and browser.

• Visible Human Male Cross-Sections from Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT).

• Visible Human Web Server from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Services for extracting labeled slices, surfaces and animations; real-time navigation through the body; constructing 3D anatomic structures; and creating teaching modules.

• Multimodality Image Registration - cryosection, CT and MRI (Geneva University Hospital).

• The Visible Human on the Fujitsu AP1000 (Australian National University).

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Sources of Images and Animations

•  Marching Through the Visible Man (paper written by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).

• Marching Through the Visible Woman. (companion paper by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).

• 3D Virtual Colonoscopy (static images and fly-through animations from the Departments of Radiology and Computer Science at SUNY Stony Brook).

• Interactive Knee Program (University of Pennsylvania Medical Center).

• A Guided Tour of the Visible Human (Washington University Medical School - The MAD Scientist Network).

• The Virtual Human (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago).

• The Vesalius Project (Creating a Computer-Based Anatomy Curriculum - Columbia University).

• MEET Man Project (Models for Simulation of Electromagnetic, Elastomechanic and Thermic Behaviour of Man - University of Karlsruhe)

• MPIRE (Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment - an interactive, distributed, direct volume rendering system for Cray T3D, Cray T3E, or SGI workstations, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center).

• Images and animations (the Institiute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany).

• Award winning 3D browser for the head (Tom Conlin of the University of Oregon - requires a Java 1.1 enabled Web client).

• The Virtual Anatomy Explorer (3D VRML browsing prototypes from the University Clinic Giessen, Germany - Cosmo player recommended for VRML viewing).

• The Visible Human Project-Reduced Data Sets (Normal [Fresh] CT scan data sets for both the male and female in reduced resolution - the University of Wisconsin).

•  Animating the Visible Human Data Set (Rutgers University, VIZLAB).

•  Peel-away Visible Human Movies for the Palm Pilot (Medical Multimedia Systems).

•  Football player animations (Anatomical Travelogue).

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Products

• Beyond Vesalius: download free software or purchase it on CD-ROM, from Wright State University.

• The Visible Human Male CD-ROM, videodisc, poster, and library of 3D models from Visible Productions.

• Visual Human product offerings distributed by Expomed:

1. Visual Man and Visual Man Lite CD-ROMs from Data Express.

2. Visible Human Male CD-ROM from Research Systems, Inc.

3. Visible Human Female CD-ROM from Research Systems, Inc.

• Visible Human Product offerings from Springer Verlag, Electronic Media:

1. VOXEL-MAN Part 1: Brain and Skull Interactive 3D atlas on CD-ROM for Unix workstations (Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine, University of Hamburg),

2.  (Replaces VOXEL-MAN Junior) VOXEL-MAN 3D-Navigator: Brain and Skull Regional, functional and radiological anatomy in English and German, with anatomical nomenclature also in Latin and some French and Japanese. - 2 CD-ROMS for Windows 9x, ME, NT or 2000 (Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine, University of Hamburg).

3. Bodyexplorer 2.0 (demo version) CD-ROM for Windows, an interactive program on cross-sectional anatomy of the Visible Humans, with structures labeled in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (For purchase information.).

4. Voxel-Man 3D Navigator: Inner Organs - Regional, Systemic and Radiological Anatomy on 3 CD-ROMs for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 in English and German (Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine, University of Hamburg).

• A.D.A.M. The Inside Story'97 Edition, from A.D.A.M. Software Inc.

• Jones & Bartlett Publishers' Visible Human product offerings:  

1. Atlas of the Visible Human Male: Reverse Engineering of the Human Body (University of Colorado).

• Visible Human product offerings from Gold Standard Multimedia, Inc.:

1. Cross Sectional Anatomy - Part of the "Integrated Medical Curriculum", a free website (registration required) allowing identification of structures within Visible Human Male cryosections.

• HUGO - The Anatomical 3D Volume and Surface Data Set, from ViewTec Ltd.

• WebPath from The University of Utah.- a website containing a subset of Visible Human cryosections (male and female) demonstrating sectional anatomy,

• Visible Human product offerings from Flashback Imaging, Inc.:

1. Visible Human Explorer Exhibit - an exhibit designed for science centers and museums.

2. Visible Man Junior CD- ROM - a fast and interactive viewer with quiz mode.

3. Visible Man Professional CD-ROM - a viewer with 8,000 images, structures labeled in English and Japanese.

4. Visible Man in 3D CD-ROM. - a viewer allowing interactive 3D cross-sectioning of the male body.

5. Visible Woman Head in 3D CD-ROM - a viewer allowing 3D cross-sectioning of the female head.

6. Visible Woman Pelvis CD-ROM - a viewer for the female pelvis.

• "Cross-Sectional Human Anatomy" softbound textbook cross references both the Visible Male and the Visible Female to Grant's Atlas and Grant's Dissector.

• "Anatomedia" self-paced anatomy program on CD-ROM

•  The Visible Human Radiological Atlas of Sectional Anatomy - a CD-ROM product from Medical Multimedia Systems.

•  Head 2 Heads - a flipbook from Optical Toys.

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