Original pictures show the body in procubitus with a cranial view. We also removed the frozen water around the body.įurthermore, we chose to redirect the slices by rotation and horizontal symmetry, in order to give an axis similar to a CT-scan (and not the standard anatomical axis, which reverses the right and left sides). To provide a web-based application, we reduced the number of slices (463) and the images resolution (640X368 pixels). Each of the resulting 1,871 “slices” was photographed in both analogue and digital, yielding 15 gigabytes of data.Īnatomy of the whole human body (male cadaver) : Brain The specimen was then “cut” in the axial plane at 1 millimeter intervals. The male cadaver was encased and frozen in a mixture of gelatin and water in order to stabilize the specimen for cutting. The male cadaver is from Joseph Paul Jernigan, a 38-year-old Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1993. National Library of Medicine (NLM) under the direction of Michael J.

This atlas is based on the Visible Human Project ran by the U.S. 1300 anatomical structures have been labeled on 463 photographs of axial cross-sections.

This module presents the anatomy of the whole human body based on cross-sectional photographs of a male cadaver. Images from the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project®