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Virtual human – a living cadaver – pushes boundaries of anatomical science(2018)

Virtual human, a living cadaver, pushes boundaries of anatomical science

Persistent because, after he accepted her request, she kept pushing when Spitzer initially refused to show her the large freezer where he stores cadavers, and the equipment he used to grind them into slices nearly the width of a human hair. Deep within the Fitzsimons Building, Spitzer sits in his laboratory which is festooned with roses on walls outside the freezer; the paintings were done by two students in the master’s program in Modern Human Anatomy. This is what Potter read in a newspaper about the National Library of Medicine-supported Visible Human project some 25 years ago: A CU team led by Spitzer and David G. Whitlock, MD, PhD, had sectioned off, from head to toe, both a male and female cadaver, using a calibrated machine to grind off layers to as small as one-third of a millimeter.

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