Anatomy and the access grid: Exploiting plastinated brain sections for use in distributed medical education

Anatomical Record - Part B New Anatomist

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-37

  Lozanoff, Scott ^a   Lozanoff, Beth K ^a   Sora, Mircea Constantin ^b   Rosenheimer, Julie ^c   Keep, Marcus F ^c   Tregear, Jonathon ^c   Saland, Linda ^c   Jacobs, Joshua ^a   Saiki, Stanley ^a   Alverson, Dale ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Tripler Army Medical Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Anatomy; Animation; Brain; Hematoma; Medical education; Neuroanatomy; PBL; Plastination; Problem based learning; TOUCH; Traumatic head injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HERNIA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HEAD INJURY; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0141885406     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.b.10006     Document Type: Review

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