| Reviewed: |
Feb 07, 2005 by Health Sciences |
| Overview: |
The Anatomy Browser is a product of The Surgical Planning Lab (SPL). The primary goal of SPL is advancing the future of health care by bringing the power of computation and imaging to new areas of medicine. SPL collaborates with groups within Brigham and Women's Hospital, with other researchers at the
Harvard Medical School, with local universities such as Harvard and MIT, and
with gifted clinicians, researchers, and engineers throughout the world. The
Anatomy Browser project brings a rich, highly detailed, hierarchical view of
human anatomy to ordinary computers or workstations. This is accomplished
utilizing Java applets through the users browser. A Java based viewer is
available for download. This ongoing project was developed by Chris Umans,
Michael Halle, Polina Golland, and Ron Kikinis. It has been active since 1996
building additional anatomy atlas cases and clinical cases over the years. |
| Learning Goals: |
The overall goal of the project is to study three dimensional human anatomy and pathology. The project is designed also:
- to develop it as a tool for education
- for pre-surgical planning and reference
- to apply the anatomy as a template for segmentation using matching algorithms
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| Target Student Population: |
The intended audience is medical students, surgical residents, surgeons, pathology residents or pathologist. However students from high school to graduate school studying anatomy could benefit from viewing the Anatomy Browser images. |
| Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills: |
A prerequisite knowledge includes a basic understanding of anatomic terms and an introductory knowledge of human anatomy is required. |
| Type of Material: |
The Anatomy Browser is a collection of custom applets which play simultaneous images in different prespectives in 3D color and grey scale images. The images depict normal anatomy and pathological conditions that can be magnified and
manipulated by the user. |
| Recommended Uses: |
The overall use of the material is to learn or review selected areas of human anatom yin 3 dimensions. |
| Technical Requirements: |
A browser that supports java applets. |
