Description:

This reference organ, Spinal-cord-female (https://humanatlas.io/3d-reference-library) was created using data from the Visible Human Dataset (VHD), provided by the National Library of Medicine (Spitzer and Whitlock 2002). The Visible Human Female has 6 lumbar vertebrae, and the total length of her spinal column is 60.923 cm. Frostell et al. 2016 was referenced during model preparation.

Bibliography:

• Spitzer, Victor M., and David G. Whitlock. 2002. “The Visible Human Dataset: The Anatomical Platform for Human Simulation.” The Anatomical Record 253 (2): 49–57. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199804)253:2<49::AID-AR8>3.0.CO;2-9.