Anatomy

Dazzling Dissection Images from Stanford's Famed Bassett Collection Go Online

Published in Law and Health Weekly, March 8th, 2008

The image of the human heart floats detached in a sea of blue, its tiniest red arteries and blue veins clearly shown growing into the muscled organ like the tiny roots of a tree. With the click of a mouse, the right ventricle lights up green; another click on "apex of the heart" and the bottom tip turns purple.

By this summer, thousands of similar images of every part of the body will be online in a newly digitized version of the Stanford University School of Medicine's world-renowned Bassett Collection of human dissection.

The first set of images hits computer screens this month, an online library that takes the one-of-a-kind collection of...

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