Development of a computer-assisted cranial nerve simulation from the visible human dataset

Anatomical Sciences Education

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 92-97

  Yeung, Jeffrey C ^a   Fung, Kevin ^a   Wilson, Timothy D ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anatomy education; Computers in anatomical education; Internet application in anatomy; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIAL NERVE; EDUCATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CRANIAL NERVES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SKULL; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECTS;

EID: 79952829854     PISSN: 19359772     EISSN: 19359780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ase.190     Document Type: Article

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