InforMed: Anatomy resources

• The Anatomy Project, Parthenon Publishing Group: ~20 CD-ROM's, each 'describing a region of the body chapter-by-chapter and comprising approximately 50 minutes of movie tutorial with expert voice-over commentary, approximately 100 self-assessment questions and answers with video remediation, an atlas, summaries, and a glossary.' 9 available as of 1999 March.
• Resources for Gross Anatomy Education at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: T. Gest.
  • detailed dissection instructions
  • anatomy tables
  • atlas images for selected regions (incl. neuro)
  • 6 QT-VR movies (3 for thorax, 2 for spine, 1 for brain ventricles; images of specimens & models, e.g., lungs, heart)
• University of Saskatchewan Computer Aided Learning Environment for Human Gross Anatomy (U-SCALE): G. Guttmann, Saskatoon. Mostly password protected, some thorax stuff available as demo.
  • 3-D models with QT-VR (renderings of simple models, e.g., eye, muscles of mastication, vocal cords)
  • 2-D animations with QT (e.g., vocal cords)
  • 2-D drawings with layers added/subtracted using checkboxes, implemented using Java.
  • text with some images
  As of 1999 spring:
  

  Region	3-D	Anim	Layered
  H & N	9	10	3
  Thorax	12	10	5
  Abdomen	2	3	3
  Pelvis	0	0	0
  Limbs	0	0	0

• Digital Anatomist Project: C. Rosse (anatomy knowledge representation), J. Brinkley (software development) & J. Sundsten (neuroanatomist), Seattle. Anatomy server for images, outlines, labels. Atlases of brain, thoracic organs, knee. Renderings of 3-D models (e.g., cranial nerves, heart); QT movies (many on CD, a few available on Web)
• Virtual Anatomy Explorer: A. Kriete & L. Berger, University Clinic Giessen.
  • a relatively simple model of head & thorax, VRML 1.0, no special interface, just the VRML viewer. One very nice thing is that Cosmo Player starts up in Examine mode
  • a kinematic animation of the head and of the arm, VRML 2. Unfortunately it didn't work, giving a VRML error message ('node not found').
  • one MPEG movie of a lung breathing
• Biomedical Imaging Resource: R. Robb, Rochester. They've developed the Analyze package for 'multidimensional image visualization, processing, and analysis'. They also have a number of VRML models. Some models for the Visible Human male are on the Web, and apparently there are many more, some from non-VHP sources.
• Quetzalcoatl. Have developed 'A custom interactive VRML viewing environment' which supposedly does at least some of the things our applet does. Plan to distribute low-resolution VRML models free on Web, sell higher-resolution models
• Interactive surgical simulations at Manchester, including proton eye radiotherapy, ventricular catheterisation and lumbar puncture
• Dog at University of Edinburgh: 2 MPEG movies (bronchioalveolar lavage, ear canal (from CT, big files, very short, hard to see what's happening)), 2 VRML animations (exploding abdomen, transparent organs)
• Moving eyes from Univ. Western Ontario
• Neck model (M. Trifot & P. Grandjean) used to teach resuscitation techniques, incl. venipuncture (not interactive)
• List of CD-ROM's for otolaryngology (5 CD-ROM's, incl. Temporal Bone Dissector)