The Visible Human Project at NLM

The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the
creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal
male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of
representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one
millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project® is to produce a system of knowledge
structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats
such as the names of body parts.

The Visible Human Project Gallery

CT trip through the human body from head to toe - MPEG Video