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Medical Images, Photographs and Videos

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• - NLM does not have a "photo library" that serves as a point of distribution for medical photographs and images
  
  
• - Stock shot libraries carry both photographs and footage. This list of medical stock images and footage is updated periodically, and can be found at at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/stockshot.html
  
  
• - NLM's audiovisual collection contains approximately 30,000 items:
  
  • - Go to the Access to Audiovisual Materials and the Learning Resource Center Fact Sheet at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/lrc.html
    
    
  • - Browse NLM's collection via LocatorPlus, NLM's online catalog, at http://locatorplus.gov/
    
    
  • - Make arrangements to borrow items from NLM's audiovisual collection, as explained at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/ill.html
    
    
• - NLM's History of Medicine Division (HMD) provides nearly 60,000 images from its collection via its Images from the History of Medicine database; available at http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
  
  
• - NLM's Visible Human Project (VHP) can provide three-dimensional representations of the human body. Find out more about the VHP at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/visible_human.html

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Last updated: 06 May 2004
First published: 01 January 1998
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