Visible Korean Human: Improved serially sectioned images of the entire body
Jin Seo Park
Min Suk Chung
Sung Bae Hwang
Yong Sook Lee
Dong-Hwan Har
Hyung Seon Park
Dept. of Anatomy, Ajou Univ. Sch. of Med., Suwon, South Korea;
This paper appears in: Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: March 2005
Volume: 24,
Issue: 3
On page(s): 352-360
Location: Davis, CA, USA,
ISSN: 0278-0062
INSPEC Accession Number: 8326027
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TMI.2004.842454
Current Version Published: 2005-02-28
Abstract
The data from the Visible Human Project (VHP) and the Chinese Visible Human (CVH), which are the serially sectioned images of the entire cadaver, are being used to produce three-dimensional (3-D) images and software. The purpose of our research, the Visible Korean Human (VKH), is to produce an enhanced version of the serially sectioned images of an entire cadaver that can be used to upgrade the 3-D images and software. These improvements are achieved without drastically changing the methods developed for the VHP and CVH; thus, a complementary solution was found. A Korean male cadaver was chosen without anything perfused into the cadaver; the entire body was magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) scanned at 1.0-mm intervals to produce MR and CT images. After scanning, entire body of the cadaver was embedded and serially sectioned at 0.2-mm intervals; each sectioned surface was inputted into a personal computer to produce anatomical images (pixel size: 0.2 mm) without any missing images. Eleven anatomical organs in the anatomical images were segmented to produce segmented images. The anatomical and segmented images were stacked and reconstructed to produce 3-D images. The VKH is an ongoing research; we will produce a female version of the VKH and provide more detailed segmented images. The data from the VHP, CVH, and VKH will provide valuable resources to the medical image library of 3-D images and software in the field of medical education and clinical trials.
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