{"id":233130,"date":"2026-03-12T03:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/open-3d-human-organ-atlas-lets-users-explore-anatomy-in-unprecedented-detail"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:33:21","slug":"open-3d-human-organ-atlas-lets-users-explore-anatomy-in-unprecedented-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/open-3d-human-organ-atlas-lets-users-explore-anatomy-in-unprecedented-detail","title":{"rendered":"Open 3D Human Organ Atlas lets users explore anatomy in unprecedented detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/open-3d-human-organ-atlas-lets-users-explore-anatomy-in-unprecedented-detail2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented detail\u2014from the whole organ down to individual cells locally. The Human Organ Atlas, created using a powerful synchrotron imaging method, brings together some of the most detailed 3D images of human organs ever produced. It enables scientists, doctors, educators, students and the wider public to interactively \u201cfly through\u201d organs such as the brain, heart, lungs, kidney and liver, providing a new way of understanding human anatomy and human diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Building on an initial release, the Human Organ Atlas (HOA) is now available in a greatly expanded form and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/human-organ-atlas.esrf.eu\" target=\"_blank\">accessed<\/a> directly through a standard web browser, without specialized software. The technology is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz2240\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas is powered by an advanced imaging method called Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT), developed at the European Synchrotron (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, by an international team led by University College London (UCL), UK. HiP-CT uses the ESRF\u2019s Extremely Brilliant Source\u2014a new generation of synchrotron source\u2014which is up to 100 billion times brighter than conventional hospital CT scanners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented detail\u2014from the whole organ down to individual cells locally. The Human Organ Atlas, created using a powerful synchrotron imaging method, brings together some of the most detailed 3D [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}