3D Anatomical Human
From EuroVR Knowledge Base
- Full name
- 3D Anatomical Human
- Acronym
- Website
- http://3DAH.miralab.unige.ch
- Keywords
- Budget
- €
- Start date
- October 2006
- End date
- September 2010
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Partners
Aalborg University
(Denmark)
http://en.aau.dk/
Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna
(Italy)
http://www.crs4.it/
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(Switzerland)
http://vrlab.epfl.ch
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
(France)
http://www.inria.fr
Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli
(Italy)
http://www.ior.it/
MIRALab, University of Geneva
(Switzerland)
http://www.miralab.unige.ch
University College London
(Great Britain)
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(Belgium)
http://www.vub.ac.be/
Funding Bodies
- EU MCRTN
Contact
- Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (mailto:thalmann@miralab.unige.ch)
Objectives
The objective of this Marie Curie Research Training Network project is to train a body of researchers in the various domains involving the modelling and simulation of human body for medical purposes. It will bring together people with different background and know-how, but all sharing an interest in some of the many facets of human body modelling and simulation. Having in mind the concept of a functional human body atlas, the participants will collaborate together to provide the European community with the next generation of tools and methodologies that could drastically change our understanding of musculoskeletal motion, medical training and treatment designing and planning in the next ten years.
Human body representations have been used for centuries to help in understanding and documenting the shape and function of its compounding parts. Since the Da Vinci drawings, human body atlases have evolved a lot, and can nowadays describe the human anatomy with great precision, even in three dimensions. How the body works: its systems and their functions, the mechanics of human motion, the pathological and healing processes, growing and aging, etc are some among the many topics being studied and described for years in different domains of science, from the medical field to computer graphics.
While the greatest anatomy atlases consist of static images of the body, existing functional models of human physiology, biomechanics and motion are rarely associated to the patient-specific shape of the corresponding anatomical structures. Functional models of parts of the human musculoskeletal system or even of that whole system, bringing together the various facets of human modelling (anatomy, biomechanics, physiology, motor control, pathology/healing) will be of great value as a support to study, discuss and analyze.
End Users
- Medical students and teachers
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