A VRML-based anatomical visualization tool for medical education

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 55-61

  Warrick, Philip A ^a   Funnell, W Robert J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Education; Medical informatics; Virtual reality; Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML); Visualization; World Wide Web (WWW)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; INTERNET; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANATOMICAL VISUALIZATION TOOLS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE (VRML);

MEDICAL EDUCATION;

EID: 0032081186     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.720523     Document Type: Article

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