Portable Document Format File Showing the Surface Models of Cadaver Whole Body

Abstract

IntheVisibleKoreanproject,642three-dimensional(3D)surfacemodelshavebeenbuilt fromthesectionedimagesofamalecadaver.ItwasrecentlydiscoveredthatpopularPDFfileenablesuserstoapproachthenumeroussurfacemodelsconvenientlyonAdobe Reader.PurposeofthisstudywastopresentaPDFfileincludingsystematizedsurface modelsofhumanbodyasthebeneficialcontents.Toachievethepurpose,fittingsoftwarepackageswereemployedinaccordancewiththeprocedures.Two-dimensional(2D)surfacemodelsincludingtheoriginalsectionedimageswereembeddedintothe3Dsurfacemodels.Thesurfacemodelswerecategorizedintosystemsandthengroups.TheadjustedsurfacemodelswereinsertedtoaPDFfile,whererelevantmultimediadatawereadded.ThefinalizedPDFfilecontainingcomprehensivedataofawholebodycouldbeexploredinvaryingmanners.ThePDFfile,downloadablefreelyfromthehomepage(http://anatomy.co.kr),isexpectedtobeusedasasatisfactoryself-learningtoolofanatomy.RawdataofthesurfacemodelscanbeextractedfromthePDFfileandemployedforvarioussimulationsforclinicalpractice.ThetechniquetoorganizethesurfacemodelswillbeappliedtomanufactureofotherPDFfilescontainingvariousmultimediacontents.