Field Trials
To understand more about high-bandwidth medical education applications, it was important to set up real teaching sessions, designed to augment regular lectures. Both at Stanford and at the University of Michigan School of Medicine we worked with anatomy instructors, such as Ameed Raoof. They reviewed an anatomical region, pointing out various structures and then quizzed the students. After the instruction was completed, the participants rated the interaction and answered questions about the experience.
Watch a short clip of Ameed Raoof, discussing the field trials.
Rich Media Resources : We used anatomy image data sets by photographing rotated views of a dissected specimen at 5 degree intervals and at least seven layers of dissection. These image sets, as a result, show bones, nerve tissues, muscles and tendons, fascia, and skin. Once created the data is stored on servers and organized for rapid retrieval by compressing the JPEG images. The images are then viewed on an appropriately configured workstation and monitor, using Remote Stereo Viewer (RSV).
Listen to Sakti Srivastava discuss the content preparation.
Dr. Min Suk Chung, an anatomist who directed the development of the Visible Korean Human spent a three-month sabbatical at Stanford in the Division of Anatomy and SUMMIT. He dissected and took photographs at seven layers in stereo of both an embalmed knee and a fresh knee, so that the images could be imported into the Remote Stereo Viewer. In addition all of the images were labeled, making the new image set a rich collection available for enriching anatomical study. (Rotated knee and Dissections of knee)