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By Rob - Posted on 16 December 2010

Sorry if this is off topic, but I'm just blown away by the latest Google toy... Body Browser:

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/

It's like Google Earth for your body... great for looking into all those aches and pains we have! Eye-wink

See the first few images below which are a few views of the Radial Nerve in the neck... this is where my recent issues lay. It's amazing that one can turn off everything but the nervous system then click the nerve in the fingers: it's highlighted from there up to a joint near the wrist. Click that and follow to another joint in the elbow. Click that and see where it connects into the neck (where the root of my problem was and those images come from). Amazing Stuff!

As you can see, one can turn layers on and off or vary their transparency. You can type in the Latin names of bones, organs, etc. and be 'flown' there.

This needs a pretty meaty computer and WebGL capable browser to run, but it's worth a look for sure. You can even cut/paste URLs to specific places in the body, for example, here's the knees as seen in the last image below:

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html#ui=0...

Just mind blowing!

hairylittlehobbit's picture

Thats an awesome web app, it really does suck the power out of the computer though

i was able to find the plantaris muscle, which i no longer have

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html#ui=0...

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