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A visible human online reference for medical education
and research:
the detailed, free of charge www-atlas of human
cross sections of the
Workshop Anatomy for the Internet.
Abstract
The workshop Anatomy for the internet (WAI) of the Johannes Gutenberg
University of Mainz, Germany provides an extensive anatomy teaching aid
free of charge in the www (http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Medizin/Anatomie/workshop/englWelcome.html).
One of its main modules is a detailed atlas of 273 axial sections of the
complete visible human male and 64 sections of the pelvis of the visible
human female. The digital images are provided as progressive encoded 24
Bit JPG images in the pixel resolution of the originals trimmed on a black
background. The selection of included sections was done with regard to
clinical interest. Next to the pictures of the original sections corresponding
CT/MR-images are shown in 8 Bit of grey, if available. In this way it is
easy to correlate anatomical to radiological structures. Links to neighbouring
sections, to motion pictures of all sections of a region, to the labelled
section and to the vocabulary of gross anatomy with >850 terms are present
on each page showing an image of the visible human-male or female. Detailed
labelling in Latin was performed in the workshop and after thorough checks,
resulting pages were embedded in the project. The www-atlas with its over
145 labelled sections and motion pictures provides an excellent world-wide
reference for anatomical and radiological understanding useful for everybody,
especially medical students, doctors and staff.
Keywords: Internet, gross anatomy, teaching, CT - MRI, motion
pictures, vocabulary
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