(Bethesda, Md.)-According to Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D.,
Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), "Researchers
from around the world are using the data from the visible man
and woman to devise 3-D educational curriculums and innovative
clinical procedures, including those with life-saving
potential." Lindberg noted, "Next week, the public will see how
the world's first 'computerized cadavers'-referred to as the
Visible Human Project-are changing how anatomy is taught and
medicine is practiced in the U.S. and throughout the world," at
a conference on October 1 and 2, 1998 on the NIH campus in
Bethesda, Md. Press are invited to see a demonstration of
several new technologies based on the Visible Human Project at
11:30 a.m., Thursday, October 1, 1998 at the Natcher Conference
Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Funded by
the NLM, a part of the National Institutes of Health, a team of
researchers from the University of Colorado prepared digital
images from two cadavers: a 39-year-old m