The Chinese Visible Human (CVH) datasets incorporate technical and imaging advances on earlier digital humans

We report the availability of a digitized Chinese male and a digitzed Chinese female typical of the population and with no obvious abnormalities. The embalming and milling procedures incorporate three technical improvements over earlier digitized cadavers. Vascular perfusion with coloured gelatin wa...

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Published in:Journal of anatomy 2004-03, Vol.204 (3), p.165-173
Main Authors: Zhang, Shao‐Xiang, Heng, Pheng‐Ann, Liu, Zheng‐Jin, Tan, Li‐Wen, Qiu, Ming‐Guo, Li, Qi‐Yu, Liao, Rong‐Xia, Li, Kai, Cui, Gao‐Yu, Guo, Yan‐Li, Yang, Xiao‐Ping, Liu, Guang‐Jiu, Shan, Jing‐Lu, Liu, Ji‐Jun, Zhang, Wei‐Guo, Chen, Xian‐Hong, Chen, Jin‐Hua, Wang, Jian, Chen, Wei, Lu, Ming, You, Jian, Pang, Xue‐Li, Xiao, Hong, Xie, Yong‐Ming, Cheng, Jack Chun‐Yiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
3D reconstruction
Adult
Anatomy, Cross-Sectional
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Cadaver
China
Chinese visible human
Computer Simulation
cryoembalming
cyrosectioning
digital human
Female
human digital images
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
imaging
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Medical Illustration
Models, Anatomic
Original
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Summary:We report the availability of a digitized Chinese male and a digitzed Chinese female typical of the population and with no obvious abnormalities. The embalming and milling procedures incorporate three technical improvements over earlier digitized cadavers. Vascular perfusion with coloured gelatin was performed to facilitate blood vessel identification. Embalmed cadavers were embedded in gelatin and cryosectioned whole so as to avoid section loss resulting from cutting the body into smaller pieces. Milling performed at −25 °C prevented small structures (e.g. teeth, concha nasalis and articular cartilage) from falling off from the milling surface. The male image set (.tiff images each of 36 Mb) has a section resolution of 3072 × 2048 pixels (∼170 µm, the accompanying magnetic resonance imaging and computer tomography data have a resolution of 512 × 512, i.e. ∼440 µm). The Chinese Visible Human male and female datasets are available at http://www.chinesevisiblehuman.com. (The male is 90.65 Gb and female 131.04 Gb). MPEG videos of direct records of real‐time volume rendering are at: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~crc
ISSN:0021-8782
1469-7580
DOI:10.1111/j.0021-8782.2004.00274.x