title: The Chinese Visible Human (CVH) datasets incorporate technical and imaging advances on earlier digital humans.
abstract: 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
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China. Zhangsx@mail.tmmu.com.cn
authors.forename: Shao-Xiang
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Pheng-Ann
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Heng
authors.forename: Zheng-Jin
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Li-Wen
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Ming-Guo
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Qi-Yu
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rong-Xia
authors.initials: RX
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Gao-Yu
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Yan-Li
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Xiao-Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Guang-Jiu
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jing-Lu
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Shan
authors.forename: Ji-Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wei-Guo
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xian-Hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jin-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: You
authors.forename: Xue-Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Yong-Ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Jack Chun-Yiu
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: 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