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Looking for digitized brain slices

Paris Guffey guffeyp at stu.beloit.edu
Sun Mar 16 21:20:44 EST 1997


timmck (timmck at fau.campus.mci.net) wrote:
: PVanvalken wrote:
: > 
: > I recall that in the past few years an entire cadaver was frozen and
: > sliced every mm or so and each slice stored digitally.  Does anyone know
: > where to access that information?
: I recall seeing a Visible Human CD-Rom at a computer store. Also, its on
: the web through NIH, where you can enter preferred coordinates, and
: actually determine therefore which coronal section to view. Net stuff!

I was under the impression that that was only going to be sold as a
commercial CD-ROM, but I haven't been to the NIH website recently...

If you are just interested in brain sections, the people at Harvard have a
nice web site called the Whole Brain Atlas at

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

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Paris Guffey
guffeyp at stu.beloit.edu



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