Chest X-ray: Pulmonary Artery Tutorial is part of a larger website called Chest X-ray developed by Dr. Jud W. Gurney. Pulmonary Anatomy tutorial contains 5 sections; Cross-sectional Anatomy, Mediastinal Anatomy, Inflated Lungs-virtual Reality, Segmental Projections, and Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging. These sections allow the learner to use cross sections or movies to view the anatomy of the lungs, mediastinum, and portions of the heart and relates those to what you see during an x-ray or CT. The target audience would be graduate or medical students or other health profession students.
Chest X-Ray.com is a great site for learning about thoracic imaging. Within this site you will find of images of lungs other chest structures. There are special topics such as CT and a CXR case of the month.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
This site could be used for students to review or reinforce the anatomy of the chest and what structures you see during chest imaging. This site could also be used in lectures on cross sections or to supplement lectures.
This material is better suited to be used in-class, as it requires some guidance for the inexperienced users. Students in graduate degrees or health professionals might be able to use it self-paced.
Technical Requirements:
A web browser. QuickTime is needed to play some movies.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Students will be able to identify anatomical structures on cross-sections of the thorax. This material helps students learn the structures in the respiratory system, while also introducing them to different visualization techniques.
Target Student Population:
Graduate, medical, physician assistant, or other health profession students.
High school anatomy, college Human Anatomy and Anatomy and Physiology students, Pneumology students.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Knowledge of chest anatomy and cross-sectional anatomy is needed. Knowledge of how to read an X-ray image is also needed. A different tutorial on how to read chest x-rays (ABCs of Chest X-rays for Health Professional) is included within the complete website, but is not found specifically in the Pulmonary Anatomy Tutorial.
Principles of anatomy are highly desirable.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The content is accurate and current.
The content demonstrates fundamental knowledge regarding chest x-rays.
The content is self-contained.
The calculators are really helpful and the visuals are in general good.
Some of the resources have color coding that really helps understand where each component is located.
Concerns:
The content is self-contained as long as the user has a background in anatomy and knows how to read x-rays.
Some of the materials are still not available or the links are broken.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Images are of high quality.
The images in Cross-sectional Anatomy are labeled to provide feedback to the learner.
The sections provide an adequate amount of information to practice and learn the anatomy of the thorax.
It is visually appealing and it simplifies some concepts that would be harder to understand.
It also works as a helpful guide to someone looking at diagnostic imaging for the first time.
Concerns:
Including text of how structures are identified and clinically important relationships would be useful.
Labels for the images in Mediastinal Anatomy would help learners identify the structures.
Making the “Introduction” button more prominent in the Cross-section Anatomy would help users to find the instructions for using the site.
Some materials are still missing labels.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The site is easy to navigate.
The calculators are incredibly easy to use.
Concerns:
The link to Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging is broken and produces “Error 410”.
Segmental Projections does not completely load. The image is missing.
Right Bronchial Anatomy/Left Bronchial Anatomy section is not complete and cannot be accessed.
However the navigation through diagnostic imaging could benefit from some improvement.
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