Comments on: Full Body MRI

By: That Guy From That Place That One Time

That Guy From That Place That One Time — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:19:20 +0000

Back when I was in school, about 8 years ago, I used the images from ‘The Visual human’ project to re-create a 3-D model of the man. Trace the skin, extrude a spline, repeat using the next slide. Made a pretty complex looking 3-D mesh. Fun project, now I’m wanting to go dig it up out of my archives and look at it again.

By: jazzman

jazzman — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:24:29 +0000

I used to get this guys slides as quizzes in anatomy in med school. Never missed a VH dissector question.

By: Ant Dude

Ant Dude — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:59:57 +0000

There are animated MRI scans of couples having sex too. Crazy!

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:42:51 +0000

Or, if you can’t work out how to do that, you can pick up the slices here…
http://www.skipweasel.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/slices.zip

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:24:42 +0000

If you want to pause it, you can save the animated gif and break it apart using this bit of freeware…

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gifsplitter.html

then browse through the individual slices at your delicatessen. Er – convenience.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:31:42 +0000

Mmmmh, steak tonight.

By: dank

dank — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:51:35 +0000

I also remember watching this on PBS. If i remember correctly, He only had one ball…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:32:59 +0000

I remember this. At SC’95 we had a 6′ tall display screen which displayed volume slices head to foot ( front to back ) “life size”.

It was disturbing. Like watching Oscar Meyer walk through a portal.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:50:43 +0000

Are you sure? The Visible Body website said that’s what they used.

By: DrDigg

DrDigg — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:39:55 +0000

Need to correct the update. Those images are just 1mm slices through a frozen cadaver. Not mri or ct scan.

By: jcastaneda15

jcastaneda15 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:30:27 +0000

“excuse me sir…..um….i can see ur junk…”

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:41:41 +0000

The body in question was/is the body of a convicted murderer. Upon execution his body was frozen and slices like gyros meat.
PBS had a special on it.

By: leegreen

leegreen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:15:48 +0000

sorry. i forgot the link.
http://streetanatomy.com/2007/04/12/the-visible-human…prisoner/

By: leegreen

leegreen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:15:00 +0000

these images are from the visible body project (link provided by mr. wendell above. “go ahead mr wendel”). street anatomy blog has an interesting history of the project. we used the images to study for our anatomy class in medschool all the time. its kind of weird knowing the sordid story of whose body they came from.

By: Adi

Adi — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:05:55 +0000

Wish you could pause it.

By: A

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:31:49 +0000

Wow, this animated gif is as old as the internets. Blast from the past.

By: Woogie

Woogie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16:27 +0000

Can’t help but get hungry when you see the legs. They look like joints of beef.

By: mikerbaker

mikerbaker — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:10:38 +0000

Yeah, I logged in to say the same thing Michael Wendell said above. Not an MRI. Saw this 10 years ago.

I’ve had MRIs and PET scans from head to thighs. My arms were over my head. I imagine it depends on what they want to see.

By: Michael Wendell

Michael Wendell — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:51:37 +0000

I don’t think this is an MRI. I’ve seen this before, and if I’m correct, these are actually photographs taken of a body as it was sliced. It’s called the Visible Human Project, and the body (deceased, obviously) was encased in ice during the process.

Here’s a link… http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:41:33 +0000

His upper arms are by his side, but bent at the elbows over his ample belly.
Mind, I shouldn’t call the pot (belly) fat.

By: RB

RB — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:33:32 +0000

This isn’t a simple MRI scan that anyone can have done I’m afraid. The reality is a bit more morbid. The images you see are called a “color cryosection” for project “Visible Human” in which a donated body was frozen in gelatin, sliced and scanned.

“In August of 1991 NLM awarded a contract to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center to create the digital cross-sections of a 39-year old convicted murderer who had donated his body to science. The radiological data was created using commercial MRI and XRAY-CT. Two CT data sets were created: one of the fresh cadaver, the other after the cadaver was frozen. Then, the cadaver was embedded in gelatin, frozen and sliced from head to toe. As each layer was exposed, a color RGB photograph was taken. Over 1800 24-bit images 2048 by 1216 were created.”

Full articles here:
http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/vm/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:14:32 +0000

OK, after watching this for a while, I wonder… has anyone here ever had a full-body MRI? Do they have you hold your arms up somewhat? See, this guy’s fingertips disappear before his genitals appear! Having arms that short would make taking a leak really difficult. Or am I overthinking this?

By: Kate D

Kate D — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:14:01 +0000

That reminds me, gotta go pick up some steaks.

Buddy looks like he should hit the gym. Look at the marbling!

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:08:22 +0000

Big boy!

By: Loomis

Loomis — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:01:21 +0000

I think it’s a guy. (male)

By: plumshums

plumshums — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:52:03 +0000

awesuum possummm~ which reminds me…house season premiere is on…tonight woo hoos!