Transforming clinical imaging data for virtual reality learning objects

Anatomical Sciences Education

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 50-55

  Trelease, Robert B ^a   Rosset, Antoine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anatomical informatics; Computed tomography; Learning objects; Magnetic resonance imaging; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CADAVER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANATOMY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 57549085186     PISSN: 19359772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ase.13     Document Type: Article

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