The development of a virtual 3D model of the renal corpuscle from serial histological sections for E-learning environments

Anatomical Sciences Education

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 574-583

  Roth, Jeremy A ^a   Wilson, Timothy D ^b   Sandig, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Histology education; Kidney structure; Microscopic anatomy education; Renal corpuscle; Segmentation; Serial sections; Three dimensional model; Undergraduate education; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC MODEL; ANATOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EDUCATION; KIDNEY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY; ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84945285151     PISSN: 19359772     EISSN: 19359780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ase.1529     Document Type: Article

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