Voxel Man

Traditional Chinese medicine meets computers - and acupuncture will never be the same.

It's a joint effort of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Institute of Medical Informatics at Hamburg University.

They've developed a body model and 3-D atlas which contain everything known about acupuncture.

From the website:

It will allow the visualization of acupoints, needle position and direction, as well as the interrogation of penetrated structures and achieved effects.



The system can then be used for teaching of novices, as lookup for experts and finally for research about the mechanisms of acupuncture.