A trip through the human body, via "Visible Human Project"

A short trip through the human body, from head to toe, in axial cross sections from a frozen cadaver. I like how the legs images look like something you'd find find at that butcher's shop.
bamdrewsays...

... and according to the wikipedia site this is the cadaver of "Joseph Paul Jernigan, a 38-year-old Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1993"... thats pretty wild, because prisoners are a protected population when it comes to research (not unlike children).

Thylansays...

CT scans are cool (it took one to finally diagnose the cancer I am now free from) but this isn't one. It is still cool though.
CT info:

A CT (computerised tomography) scanner is a special kind of X-ray machine. Instead of sending out a single X-ray through your body as with ordinary X-rays, several beams are sent simultaneously from different angles.

How does a CT scanner work?

The X-rays from the beams are detected after they have passed through the body and their strength is measured.

Beams that have passed through less dense tissue such as the lungs will be stronger, whereas beams that have passed through denser tissue such as bone will be weaker.

A computer can use this information to work out the relative density of the tissues examined. Each set of measurements made by the scanner is, in effect, a cross-section through the body.

The computer processes the results, displaying them as a two-dimensional picture shown on a monitor. The technique of CT scanning was developed by the British inventor Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work.

From http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/examinations/ctgeneral.htm

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'head to toe, visible human project' to 'head to toe, visible human project, anatomy, axial section, human, body' - edited by mauz15

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