CardioAtlas uses the Human Reference Atlas (HRA) female heart and blood vasculature models, v1.3, by Kristen Browne and Heidi Schlehlein, derived from the National Library of Medicine Visible Human Dataset.
The heart includes four chamber surfaces, the interventricular septum, four valves, and five papillary muscle meshes. The vascular model includes coronary arteries and veins, great vessels, and selected systemic vessels. It is not a complete whole-body vascular tree.
Colors, hiding, transparency and clipping are viewer additions. Geometry is unchanged except for a shared display translation and scale. Several source text labels conflict with their mesh names; displayed names for LAD and inferior pulmonary veins follow the mesh names. The anterior papillary muscle is labeled without assigning a ventricle because its source label and location are inconsistent.
These static reference models do not provide chordal detail, a conduction-system model, hemodynamics, motion, or patient-specific anatomy. Use for anatomy exploration and education, not diagnosis or procedural planning.
Reference model describes one donor. Anatomy, dominance and vessel courses vary between individuals. View labels use patient anatomy: patient left is screen right in the anterior view.