The male cadaver was encased and frozen in a gelatin and water mixture in order to stabilize the specimen for cutting. The specimen was then ?cut? in the axial plane at 1 millimeter intervals. Each of the resulting 1,871 ?slices? were photographed in both analog and digital, yielding 15 gigabytes of data. In 2000, the photos were rescanned at a higher resolution, yielding more than 65 gigabytes. The female cadaver was cut into slices at .33 millimeter intervals, resulting in some 40 gigabytes of data.
The term ?cut? is a bit of a misnomer, yet it is used to describe the process of grinding away the top surface of a specimen at regular intervals. The term ?slice,? also a misnomer, refers to the revealed surface of the specimen to be photographed; the process of grinding the surface away is entirely destructive to the specimen and leaves no usable or preservable ?slice? of the cadaver.
The data is supplemented by axial sections of the whole body obtained by computed tomography, axial sections of the head and neck obtained by magnetic resonance imaging, and coronal sections of the rest of the body also obtained by magnetic resonance imaging.
The scanning, slicing and photographing took place at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center, where additional cutting of anatomical specimens continues to take place.
The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which these findings link anatomy to its audiences. A male and a female cadaver were cut into thin slices, which were then photographed and digitized. The project is run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) under the direction of Michael J. Acke Th...
I guess they freeze them and then grind it down a layer at a time
But yeah, I think it’s poop
on_edge
February 11, 2012, 5:49am
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I’ve been reading up on it in Wiki too and It sounds like it’s only been done with one man and one woman. I don’t think the OP image is really that of “slices”. The whole thing seems kind of weird and pointless since we can get way better images from the high res MRIs available now.
The black areas are just open spaces in the body. Ie: lungs, bladder, and in the intestines either sections with no fecal matter, or gas.
kakno
February 11, 2012, 11:38am
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There’s no marrow in those bones…
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
HAHAHA wtflol Rep+
Tex_Ag
February 11, 2012, 12:42pm
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[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
I believe the black areas are gas. I could be wrong.[/quote]
Well, since they are “slices” of a cadaver and not xrays of a dead body, wouldn’t any trapped gas have dissipated?[/quote]
How the heck do they “slice” the whole body? A fucking giant ham slicer?[/quote]
Ninjas
[quote]on edge wrote:
oh no, more than one. They have various systems as well, cardiopulmonary, nervous etc all preserved. It’s really interesting to see.