Visible Human Project

Site:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural_research.dir/visible_human.html

Category:
Health and Medicine

Review (in 1996):

The National Library of Medicine has set out to map the human body in three dimensions in excruciatingly fine detail. Using the body of a 39-year-old convicted murderer who donated his body to science, researchers are collecting transverse images of the body at one-millimeter intervals. There are computer-generated "fresh-cadaver" images made by CAT and MRI scanning machines, plus the ever popular "frozen-cadaver" (cryosection) images, in revolting, fascinating color. (Cryosection means they deep-freeze the body and then, in essence, run it through a an extremely expensive deli-slicer.)

You can only view samples of the resulting images here; the complete set is so voluminous that you have to register and pay a pile of money to get it. But it's worth the visit just to contemplate the whole idea.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.