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- Subject: Re: Request for Human Skeletonmenu
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.140049.1951@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 14:00:49 CST
- References: <1992Nov17.180708.2170@alw.nih.gov> <38wguB1w165w@atrium1.Gwinnett.COM>
- Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University
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- In article <38wguB1w165w@atrium1.Gwinnett.COM>, watman@atrium1.Gwinnett.COM (William A. Tolhurst) writes:
- > 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).
- >
- > 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
- >
- > --
- > William A. Tolhurst | watman@atrium1.gwinnett.com
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