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 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 degrees 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 x 2048 pixels ( approximately 170 micro m, the accompanying magnetic resonance imaging and computer tomography data have a resolution of 512 x 512, i.e. approximately 440 micro m). 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
Zhang
Shao-Xiang
SX
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China. Zhangsx@mail.tmmu.com.cn
Heng
Pheng-Ann
PA
Liu
Zheng-Jin
ZJ
Tan
Li-Wen
LW
Qiu
Ming-Guo
MG
Li
Qi-Yu
QY
Liao
Rong-Xia
RX
Li
Kai
K
Cui
Gao-Yu
GY
Guo
Yan-Li
YL
Yang
Xiao-Ping
XP
Liu
Guang-Jiu
GJ
Shan
Jing-Lu
JL
Liu
Ji-Jun
JJ
Zhang
Wei-Guo
WG
Chen
Xian-Hong
XH
Chen
Jin-Hua
JH
Wang
Jian
J
Chen
Wei
W
Lu
Ming
M
You
Jian
J
Pang
Xue-Li
XL
Xiao
Hong
H
Xie
Yong-Ming
YM
Cheng
Jack Chun-Yiu
JC
D000328:Adult; D019412:Anatomy, Cross-Sectional; D044466:Asian People; D002102:Cadaver; D002681:China; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008488:Medical Illustration; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed