A Virtual Human

The Visible Human Project uses Hannibal-style slices of dead woman’s body to build a "virtual human."

16:27 28 September 2015

The Visible Human Project, which started in 1986, aims to create a digital record of an entire human body using Hannibal-style slices of dead woman’s body. The anonymous donor was a 59-year-old woman who died from a heart attack in Maryland, USA.

 

Fernando Bello from Imperial College London, said: “They have ten times as much information as you’d get from an MRI scan.”

 

“It means the team will have much more information about organs and their structuring,” 

 

As the slices of the woman’s cadaver have got thinner and as computer imaging technology has improved, high-resolution images are obtained by scientists who insist that it is safer and cheaper way to conduct experiments and studies involving the human anatomy.