Template talk:BodyParts3D

Anatomography was launched on Feb. 9, 2009[2] by founder and chief director Kousaku Okubo (大久保 公策), professor of the DNA Data Bank of Japan at the National Institute of Genetics. Human body polygon data used in the site is called "BodyParts3D". BodyParts3D polygon data is extracted from full-body MRI images. The MRI image set which BodyParts3D is based on is "TARO". Taro is a common given name for males in Japanese, as John is in English. TARO is a 2mm * 2mm * 2mm voxel dataset of the human male created by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. TARO was published freely on November, 2004. The construction process of BodyParts3D is as follows.

Phase 1: Additional anatomical segmentations were introduced in the original TARO data.

Phase 2: Then, missing details were supplemented and blurred contours were clarified using a 3D editing program by referring to textbooks, atlases, and mock-up models by medical illustrators.

Phase 3: Further segmentation and data modification will continue in collaboration with clinical researchers until sufficient concept coverage is achieved.

BodyParts3D polygon data is distributed in the OBJ file format. The entire data file's size is 127 MB (polygon reduced) and 521 MB (high quality) as of version 3.0. The number of body parts (organs) registered in BodyParts3D is 1,523 as of version 3.0.