Publications and news

• Apr. 28, 2010: We released BodyParts3D 2.0 and updated GUI. [New GUI]
• Feb. 9, 2009: Downloadable 3D object (polygon) data of BodyParts3D in STL or VTK format was updated. [Download page]
• Oct. 3, 2008: An article of BodyParts3D will be published in Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue 2009. [Link to Nucleic Acids Research]
  
• Aug. 11, 2008: Some portion (phase 2, cardiovascular and respiratory system) of 3D object (polygon) data in BodyParts3D was made downloadable. [Download Page]
  
• Jul. 1, 2008: We renamed "PolygonMan" to "BodyParts3D".
• Jun. 25, 2008: The layout of this site was updated. Access the URLs below according to what you want to do.
  • Click BodyParts3D if you confirm a position and a shape of a body part of the human body.
  • Click Anatomography if you readily generate an anatomical chart of the human body by selecting body parts from BodyParts3D and setting their opacities and colors and the viewpoint.
• Jun. 6, 2008: TogoTV's program that introduces Anatomography was updated. [Anatomography on TogoTV]
  
• Apr. 10, 2008: Phase 2 data of BodyParts3D (cardiovascular and respiratory system) were initially published. [All registered terms in BodyParts3D]
  
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Mar. 6, 2008: Anatomography web form were updated. It is easier to generate an Anatomogram by selecting anatomical terms from BodyParts3D dictionary.
Feb. 27, 2008: Web API client and sample programs in Java were updated. [download]

Dec. 20, 2007: Web API client and sample programs in Java were updated. [download]

Dec. 11, 2007: We presented Anatomography and BodyParts3D at the poster session of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (BMB2007). [Download poster (1P-1055)]

Oct. 10, 2007: TogoTV introduced Anatomography. [Anatomography on TogoTV]

Oct. 5, 2007: Anatomography web form were available so that you can generate Anatomography images by pasting your organ-specific data to the form. [Anatomography web form ]

Oct. 5, 2007: Web API client and sample programs in Java were initially available for download.

Terms of use of Anatomography

Anatomical images that you generate (Anatomogram) and Anatomography Web API are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan License.
The author and licenser of the contents is Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS).

Credit

We referred to the following data in order to construct phase 1 data of BodyParts3D. However, the usage of downloadable data (phase2 or higher) is not restricted.

• Numerical human model database （a voxel model phantom for radio-frequency electromagnetic-field dosimetry developed by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Kitasato Univ., Keio Univ., Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., about 50 segments)

Development team

In DBCLS

• Nobutaka Mitsuhashi (full-time development leader): Development of an anatomical term dictionary, a rendering server, a web service and homepages
• Kaori Fujieda (full-time medical artist): Modeling organ shapes, anatomical term assignment to the organs and management of structural relationships between organs
• Kousaku Okubo (chief development officer)： Making original concepts and an editorial supervisor in anatomy

Suporting companies

• BITS CO., Ltd.: Designing and development of Anatomography editor
• K's Design Lab. (in Japanese): Three-dimensional CAD instructor and scanning for initial data acquisition
• M.I.C. Corp. (in Japanese): Scanning for initial data acquisition