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Virtual human – a living cadaver – pushes boundaries of anatomical science(2018)

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31 points the_red_mist | 2 comments | 14 Apr 25 15:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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thih9 ◴[16 Apr 25 15:21 UTC] No.43706614[source]▶
Wikipedia has more details about the project and the donors, and high quality photos (warning, human cadaver cryosections): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
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1. albumen ◴[16 Apr 25 17:32 UTC] No.43708132[source]▶
What the OP article notes, that Wikipedia doesn't, is that Susan Potter was imaged in layers just 63 microns thick, vs 300 for the earlier female donor, and 1000 microns for the male.
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2. thih9 ◴[16 Apr 25 19:38 UTC] No.43709478[source]▶
The information is there, although you need to follow a link:

> Potter's body was (…) sliced into 27,000 slices in 63-μm increments, individually scanned during a period of 60 working days. Because the technology used in the Visible Human project significantly improved since its launch in 1993, much more detail will be available in Potter's scans: images from the two previous donors were based on 1,000 μm sections for the male subject and 300 μm for the female subject.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Potter

Then again, I only meant that Wikipedia has some extra data - not that it has everything from the article (it doesn’t).