title: [Research report of experimental database establishment of digitized virtual Chinese No.1 female].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish digitized virtual Chinese No.1 female (VCH-F1) image database.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 19 years old female cadaver was scanned by CT, MRI, and perfused with red filling material through formal artery before freezing and em- bedding. The whole body was cut by JZ1500A vertical milling machine with a 0.2 mm inter-spacing. All the images was produced by Fuji FinePix S2 Pro camera.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The body index of VCH-F1 was 94%. We cut 8 556 sections of the whole body, and each image was 17.5 MB in size and the whole database reached 149.7 GB. We have totally 6 versions of the database for different applications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Compared with other databases, VCH-F1 has good representation of the Chinese body shape, colorful filling material in blood vessels providing enough information for future registration and segmentation. Vertical embedding and cutting helped to retain normal human physiological posture, and the image quality and operation efficiency were improved by using various techniques such as one-time freezing and fixation, double-temperature icehouse, large-diameter milling disc and whole body cutting.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Anatomy, First Military Medical University, Guagnzhou 510515, China.
authors.forename: Shi-zhen
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Wen-hua
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jing-xing
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Jian-yi
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xing-hai
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Shu-qian
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Dulie
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Shao-qun
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Mei-chao
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Kun-cheng
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Pei-feng
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.forename: Yun-tao
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Pei-liang
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Tong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ji-hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D019412:Anatomy, Cross-Sectional; D002681:China; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional