Imielinska Celina Z. author Columbia University. Radiation Oncology Molholt Pat A. author Columbia University. Biomedical Informatics Columbia University. Radiation Oncology originator text Articles 2005 English The introduction of the Visible Human Project by Ackerman in 1995, described in the seminal paper in 1996, brought a promise to anatomists that these two frozen, milled, and digitized cadavers--the Visible Male and Female--would revolutionize anatomy teaching by providing the most complete and detailed anatomical images ever. This vision could be compared to the proverbial "man on the moon" program for medical education and has proven to be much more challenging than expected. Although the ramifications of this project are not of the same scale as the shock created five centuries ago by the Padua physician Andreas Vesalius when he challenged the ancient Greek physician Galen's description of the human body, the original interest created by the availability of the Visible Human data was enormous. Science education Medical imaging and radiology 48 2 49 54 2005-02 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1042091.1042119 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14349 NNC NNC 2012-08-13 11:03:29 -0400 2012-08-13 11:09:47 -0400 8368 eng