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- From: watman@atrium1.Gwinnett.COM (William A. Tolhurst)
- Newsgroups: alt.3d,comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Request for Human Skeleton
- Message-ID: <38wguB1w165w@atrium1.Gwinnett.COM>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 23:05:37 EST
- References: <1992Nov17.180708.2170@alw.nih.gov>
- Organization: Applied Technology & Research, Lawrenceville, GA, USA
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- weisen@daedalus.dcrt.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
-
- > In article 11099@informix.com, proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
- > >
- > > Does my memory deceived me, or is it not the case that some place
- > > like Colorado they are digitizing a complete human body by actually
- > > cutting it into very thin slices (like 0.1 mm or something) and
- > > scanning each one optically? Presumably it must have been treated
- > > in some way to induce a kind of ultra rigor mortis ...
- > >
- > > These seems like a wonderfully macabre project, and I'd be interested
- > > if anyone has more information about it.
- > >
- > > Paul
- >
- > Sorry if I'm attributing this to the wrong person, but I missed the
- > original post.
- >
- > I remember reading about this a while ago. I think it was early to
- > mid-80's in some geek magazine like Popular Science. They were just
- > doing an arm then and they were slicing it with a normal deli slicer.
- > I think that the ultra rigor mortis was called frozen :-). They were
- > taking pictures of the slices, circling the important structures with
- > colored markers, and scanning the pictures in. I guess that color
- > scanner resolution wasn't that hot back then.
- >
- > I'm glad to hear that someone has moved on to the rest of the body, but
- > the thought of slicing certain things makes me squeamish.
- >
- >
- > --Neil
- >
-
- I have heard of an effort called the "Visible Human" project, sponsored
- I believe by the National Library of Medicine. The objective is to
- acquire a "normal" male and "normal" female cadaver, freezing or
- otherwise preserving them, and digitizing slices at 1/2 mm intervals, and
- from that create a 3D database for each.
-
- Apparently one of the biggest problems is finding bodies which are
- "normal". That is:
-
- Caused of death was not due to some pathology (cancer, etc).
-
- Cause of death was not due to trauma (gun/knife wound, etc).
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- Cause of death was not old age.
-
- I dunno, maybe a couple who died of CO poisioning?
-
- BTW, I don't know what this project would use, but it is common to use
- something like a deli slicer or a planer/joiner to do the sectioning.
- They don't really "section" the body, rather its more like grinding away a
- layer & digitizing that view. Try not to think of that next time you
- go to Arbys. :^*
-
- If anyone else has more info, please post.
-
- WATman
-
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