About the models in Anatomy Vision
Anatomy Vision is an app I built for viewing anatomical models using Apple Vision Pro. This page includes more information about the models used in the app.
Anatomy Vision displays models based on the open-source Z-Anatomy models, which in turn are based on the BodyParts3D dataset, which in turn was constructed from the Visible Human project from the NIH.
Michael Ackermann, the lead on the Visible Human project, describes an early conversation that inspired the project:
In the fall of 1987, […] Cornelius Rosse M.D., the Chairman of the Biological Structure Department, told me that if interactive microcomputer-based education is to be used in medical school, it should be used in the teaching of Anatomy. He explained that a student gets to see a particular anatomical site only once, since it is later dissected. The student cannot go back and review. Also, anatomy is three dimensional yet the student gets to see it only from one direction. One cannot really “study” anatomy like one studies other subjects.
A year and a half later, in the spring of 1989, the Visible Human Project began. What insight! What foresight! Remember, this is just a few years after Tron (1982)!