Somethint I WILL miss..Visible Human Project

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I have finally found something I will miss if Y2K is a 10.

It is::

http://vhp.nus.sg/vhp/vhpintro.html

The Visible Human Project.

If I try to synopsis it for you, I'll not get it right. Go read the intro and click in the fact sheet click at the bottom and see for yourself what they have done.

what the heck are "cubic voxels"??

-- Chuck a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), November 23, 1998

Answers

Chuck... do you really wanna know?

I saw a special about this on the Discovery Channel or something. What happens is the body is sliced lengthwise in very thin layers and a picture is taken. It's really gross and kinda sick. I think the information gathered has been used for everything from computer programs to training and research videos, etc.

But, I could be wrong and way off about what I think this is. I wonder what will happen to all this technology after y2k?

Mike ================================================================

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), November 23, 1998.


One result is a set of really funky screensaver images:

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

I can't wait for the movie.

Do not try this at home.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), November 23, 1998.


Think of all the cadavers saved with this picture library; now all a med student needs to do is study each picture instead of disecting a real cadaver him/herself ;)

Us nurses only had to disect cats, thankgoodness!

Now I have to go and make dinner, thanks for cutting my appetite Tom ;P

-- Chris (catsy@pond.com), November 23, 1998.


The male subject was a relatively young man who was executed for murder. Cat scan at 1mm intervals is part of the project. Very helpful when trying to study human anatomy. I know there is a female counterpart but I don't know the history.

-- R. D..Herring (drherr@erols.com), November 23, 1998.

Awwwh. Number 1 doesn't have his bellybutton. What's the purple "8-shaped" gadet around the backbone (?) - in the middle, in the back.

Never took biology...guess it shows, eh?

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), November 23, 1998.



What I will REALLY miss is the fact that this reference will be available to each and every hospital, doctor's clinic and office, etc. No longer will they have to rely on possibly hazy memory (a couple years of chronic sleep deprivation has GOT to play merry he*l with the long term recall) and maybe get something wrong. They can get it in 3D and rotate anyway they want to refresh their memory!

And I, as a Paramedic, while taking an additional A&P course, had teh great pleasure of visiting a friend in a cadaver lab as she was working on the lower extremities. there is NOTHING that helps understanding like actually seeing, touching and feeling the origins and insertions of the various muscles, and getting the proportions on things like the inferior venacava and the descending aorta, femorals (A and V). Now I have a much better understanding of hemorage and the ease of falling into hypovolemic shock.

APPOLOGIES TO NON-MEDICAL TYPES IF I OFFENDED ANY SENSIBILITIES, BUT, THIS IS SOMETHING YOU WILL NEED TO DEAL WITH IF TSHTF.

-- Chuck, etc (rienzoo@en.com), November 24, 1998.


And the last part of the pose should read: I strongly suspest that there a LOT of people who are going to learn their anatomy and physiology the hard way, in un-social situations, and possibly on their own family.

GET A FIRST AID CLASS AND TRY TO THEORETICALLY APPLY IT TO "WHEN THERE IS NO DOCTOR" (and you could also consider adding that particular book to your library, AFTER you READ IT!)!!!

(Which explains the relavence of the thread, in case somebody wants to know!)

-- Chuck, etc (RIENZOO@EN.COM), November 24, 1998.


Might toss in a copy of the Merck Manual while you are at it, Chuck.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), November 24, 1998.

Robert, those are the paraspinous and paravertebral muscles (major back muscles that run vertically). Incredible pictures!

-- l parks (lparks@eurekanet.com), November 24, 1998.

Would that mean that this sucker was slit from "a**hole to appetite?

S.O.B.

-- sweetolebob (buffgun@hotmail.com), November 24, 1998.



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