Human Anatomy

Human Anatomy

• The Visible Human Project - This project is creating complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The site includes information about the project and sample images and animations. There are links to applications for viewing the data, as well as links to other projects and papers based upon the Visible Human data.
• Vesalius Interactive Anatomy - Vesalius recognizes the fact that the more you know of the human body, the more confusing it can become. In order to facilitate a better understanding of human anatomy, this interactive site was created with the idea of using 3D images or storyboards and transparencies to better illustrate what 2D pictures might fail to show. The site is technical with sections on surgical pearls, a procedural atlas that covers techniqes like needle placement biopsy and laparoscopic hernia repair, slides and images, and more. Shockwave 4.0 is necessary for viewing some of the images.
• BrainMap Search and View - This site organizes the human functional brain mapping literature. There is an option of logging in as a guest if you don't want to get an account. The search produces abstracts of the articles and bibliographical data for a "guest" user. To have access to experimental detail, etc., you need to have an account.
• The NPAC Visible Human Viewer - This Java applet allows you to select and view high-resolution images of 2-dimensional slices of a human body, using image data taken from the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. There are three types of image slices: axial, sagittal, and coronal. Small (preview) images for each of these viewpoints are displayed in the main panel of the viewer. Moving one of the cutting lines will create a new slice through the Visible Human.
• Human Anatomy On-line: InnerBody.com - This site offers the first illustrated human anatomy Java site. The user can click on the hot spots on the illustrations to get the name and the description of the chosen structure. According to their information, this program contains over one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
• The Columbia Virtual Body - The Virtual Body website presented by Columbia Healthcare Corporation is a fun site with some neat technology. The virtual body site allows the user to take interactive tours of the heart, brain, digestive system, and skeleton of the human body.
• The Whole Brain Atlas - This very cool site includes images, animations and movies of brain structures, vascular anatomy, and a wide range of brain diseases. There are sections about the normal brain, cerebrovascular disease (stroke), neoplastic disease (brain tumor), degenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease), and inflammatory or infectious diseases. There are extensive pictures, including a section entitled "Top 100 Brain Structures" with an accompanying quiz. The information is highly technical, but presented in an accessible manner.
• WorldOrtho - A truly outstanding site created/maintained by the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Nepean Hospital (Sydney, Australia). Provided are: two on-line textbooks (plus case studies, quizzes, and question/answere format) for medical students, on-line consulting service for rural physicians, advisory service for patients, and a discussion group for orthopaedic surgeons and medical students.
• The American Association of Anatomists - The American Association of Anatomists has enrolled 5,381 members. This home page for the society includes a wide range of information about membership, anatomy links, anatomy products and job listings.
• Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases - Vivid 2-D and 3-D images of the brain from cadaver sections, MRI scans, and computer reconstructions are presented in this site in University of Washington. There are interactive quizzes.
• ICBM (International Consortium for Brain Mapping) - In their data archive, images of the human brain cryotome slices can be seen in sagittal, coronal and horizontal views.
• Net-Doctor - A wonderful site for the body-curious student or researcher, this page offers animations of and information about many of the body's main systems and organs.
• The Digital Anatomist Program - This site is dedicated to producing an online interactive atlas of the human body and to develop methods for representing and managing structural information about the human body.
• Introduction to Muscle Physiology and Design
  This illustrated resource from the Neuromuscular Physiology Lab at the University of California is a mini-course on the biophysics, anatomy, and metabolism of muscles.