In a recent issue of _The Chronicle of Higher Education_ (perhaps two or
three weeks ago), a "visible man" project was profiled.  A convict,
sentenced to death, had willed his body to science.  After he was
dispatched with a lethal injection, his body was frozen in a gel into a
large block.  Then, researchers cut the block into 1,500 sections and
took photos of each section.  Finally, the photos were digitized and
combined into a computer program for anatomy students.  Apparently, the
whole thing is very 3-D and unbelievably realistic -- and you can see
*any* portion of the body you want, inside and out, via the computer.
It's sort of grisly, but a valuable teaching and research tool.  Also,
they're working on a "visible woman" done in twice as many sections as
the man.

The visible man, as I recall, is available on CD or computer tapes or
disks, but it's quite expensive.

Doug

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Doug Lantry
University of Delaware
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