Sectioning of the Visible Human Female at 1/3mm has been completed. The Visible Human Female was unveiled at the 1995 Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
- Photographic cross-sections:
- Volume Dimensions: 1664 x 928 x 5189
- Pixel Dimensions: .33 mm x .33 mm x .33 mm
- Pixel Depth: 24-bit (8-bits x RGB)
- Volume Size: 22.4 GB
- Computed Tomography (CT)
- acquired in fresh state:
- Volume Dimensions: 512 x 512 x 1730
- Pixel Dimensions: variable x variable x 1 mm
- Pixel Depth: 16-bit
- Volume Size: 864 MB
- Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI):
These specifications for the photographic data are based on the Visible Human Female Dataset as it is used by the Center for Human Simulation. This dataset differs from the National Library of Medicine's dataset in that the smallest matrix containing anatomical detail has been extracted from the NLM's 2048 x 1216 matrix to yield a 1664 x 928 matrix.
The Center for Human Simulation has converted the variable blue gelatin background in the photographic images to a constant black background for efficient lossless compression (run-length encoding). Using this scheme, we are able to compress the 22.4 GB dataset into 6.6 GB, without losing any anatomical detail.
On-line samples of the photographic images can be viewed at reduced size, in jpeg format with the Visible Human Female Browser.
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