A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections
of the human body. This introduction and tour uses images and animals from
the project to teach key concepts in human anatomy.
- Cross-sectional Anatomy:
Using 2D images to visualize 3D structures.
- Planes of Section, with animations:
An introduction to the three planes of section.
- Transverse | Coronal | Sagittal | Organs labeled in the sagittal plane
- Transverse | Coronal | Sagittal | Organs labeled in the sagittal plane
- Interactive Annotations:
A clickable interface for learning about anatomical features.
Includes search engine to locate structures in images.
- How this tour was created.
Further details concerning the Visible Human may be found at the National Library of Medicine Sagittal and coronal sections are used with permission of the NPAC Project. Animations and the software running the interfaces for the annotated images were created by (me).
