What if there were a way to optimize cancer treatments, design safer and more efficient noninvasive brain and spinal cord treatments and assess the hazards of implanted medical devices without ever touching a human body? Today, there is a way to do this, thanks to virtual human models. Our special insert this month looks at various ways in which virtual models are being used to solve medicine’s thorniest problems.
Read about the Virtual Human Project
- The Visible Human Project
Michael J. Ackerman - Optimizing Electric-Field Delivery for tDCS
Pedro C. Miranda, Ricardo Salvador, Cornelia Wenger, Sofia R. Fernandes - Of Fields and Phantoms
Ze’ev Bomzon, Cornelia Wenger - Virtual Humans for Implantable Device Safety Assessment in MRI
James E. Brown, Rui Qiang, Paul J. Stadnik, Larry J. Stotts, Jeffrey A. Von Arx - ITK-SNAP
Paul A. Yushkevich, Guido Geric - Researching Fiber Networks
Sergey Makarov, Alvaro-Pascual Leone, Aapo Nummenmaa - CAD-Based Virtual Humans
Gregory M. Noetscher, Nicholas D. Maino, Patrick Lacroix, Marc Horner, Sara Louie - Human Breast Phantoms
Luz Maria Neira, R. Owen Mays, Susan C. Hagness