The Visible Human Project

The Visible Human Project is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CAT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals.

The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.

Further information:

• A description of the Visible Human data & how to obtain it
• The Visible Human FactSheet
• A sampler of images from the Project
• Additional information provided by one of the Project collaborators, NCAR