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From: scot@catzen.gun.de (Scot W. Stevenson)
Subject: Re: Modelling human anatomy
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Hello Johannes,

> Are there any known (generic) models of human anatomy - or parts of it -, 
> which describe more than just generalisation and aggregation hierarchies, 
> but regard as well things like topological and geometric relations between 
> anatomic parts and their (3D-)shape?

I'm not quite sure exactly what you are looking for, but you might want
to check out some texts on 'radiological' anatomy. Tho most are based on
2D-X-rays, they go into some detail on sizes, spacial relationships, and
whatnot for clinical uses. Most of these books are very large and
expensive, but a small one that you should be able to find at your local
medical bookstore in Germany, and will give a basic idea what is out there
would be

	"Roentgennormalbefunde", Thorsten B. Moeller
	Thieme Verlag, ISBN 3-13-700901-4

This is one of the purple-blue-white paperbacks German medical students
run around with all the time.

Hope this helps.
Y, Scot
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          Scot W. Stevenson  scot@catzen.gun.de  Essen, Germany
                    Unix created vi to test the faithful
