medical illustration

This paper describes how medical illustration has evolved to become increasingly important in undergraduate medical education, postgraduate medical education and continuing medical education, as new technologies have become available and ..

..Thus, the atlas becomes a framework for managing complex genetic and epigenetic information about the mouse brain. The atlas and associated tools may be accessed at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/MAP...

..A comprehensive framework that encompasses many forms of information in the context of anatomic imaging holds tremendous promise for producing new insights. The atlas and associated tools can be found at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/MAP...

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..The presented method is general and can be applied for constructing human and animal probabilistic brain atlases...

..Yet, still today, the liver lobule, although not present in man, always is presented in textbooks as the morphological and physiological unit of the liver...

..The essence of the new atlas is not only its population-based structural and functional content, but also its continuous "self-updatability" with the new clinical results obtained...

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..Teledermatology techniques can be reliably applied to retrospective diagnosis...

..The paper discusses different aspects of the above traditions and how they might bear on this conflict and on contemporary bioethics and bedside practice...

..The methods have been evaluated by radiologists in a study simulating the clinical task of stenosis assessment, in which the animation technique is shown to outperform traditional rendering in terms of assessment accuracy...

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..Today, as anatomical images abound in the arts and the media, we still believe that anatomical images show us our inner reality...

..Summarizing, we developed a Win32 program which permits the convenient and fast application of standardized anatomy to individual brains which potentially contain tumors...

..Both art and science benefited from the reciprocal ways in which the two influenced each other even as they provided new ways of explaining the mysteries of the human body and mind...

..Consideration also is given to the role of anatomist as priest, prophet, and Promethean creator, roles self-consciously embraced by von Hagens...

..Loder opposed theoretical transcendence and standardisation in the representation of human anatomy...

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..The first great atlases in the field of dermatology by Robert Willan (1757-1812) and Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837), and by M. N. Devergie (1784-1842) in venereology, are addressed and Willan's work is elaborated in detail...

..The Honeybee Standard Brain is accessible at www.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de/beebrain...

..These halo intensities are then mapped to colors and opacities using a halo profile function. Our method can be used to annotate features at interactive frame rates...

..The continued use of the Pernkopf atlas is not only justifiable but desirable as a tool in the teaching of anatomy, history, and ethics...

..This essay offers an account of this eminent physician, his era, and his philosophical background, as well as a description of the anatomic structures that bear his name...

..Unfortunately, Vicq d'Azyr did not survive the turmoil of the French Revolution; he died at age 46 on June 20, 1794...

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..Lu Xun made clean copies in the first two months after matriculation, and made crude notes after then. Corrections by Professor Fujino were found in the crude notes for his lectures...

..We validated the approach using a gold standard real brain MRI data set. Comparison of the results with existing algorithms displays the promise of our approach...

..We demonstrate reproducibility of these measurements across scans. In addition, we introduce the idea of using clustering for automatic matching of anatomical structures across hemispheres...

..Our brain atlas and structural mesh models (www.stjude.org/brainatlas) can be used to plan treatment, to conduct knowledge and model-driven segmentation, and to analyze the shapes of brain structures in pediatric patients...

..In this paper, we present a method for the generation and implementation of a probabilistic breast cancer atlas. We then validate this method on data from the Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM)...

..The results show a strong coherence of the diffusion tensors and the fiber orientations among a population of seven normal canine hearts...

..We believe extracting optimal prior probability distributions from training data is crucial in light of the central role priors play in many automated brain MRI analysis techniques...

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..It also provides an analysis of this period based on the types of criticism directed against the doctrine of the implanted air of the ear...

..We will attract your attention on this originality, often ignored, of the Epitome...

..Semantic layers allow for a linguistic specification of the mapping from attributes to visual styles replacing the traditional transfer function specification...

..We describe both these atlases and discuss how they may be put to use in organizing and analyzing data from mouse models of epilepsy...

..In this preliminary work, we use the mean shift algorithm to identify the modes of the sample and multidimensional scaling to visualize the clustering process on clinical MRI neurological image datasets...

..Expert visual inspection of the result confirms that the proposed method is very promising and efficient in clustering of the known bundles of fiber tracts...

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..We use the mean shift algorithm to identify the modes of the sample and multidimensional scaling to visualize the clustering process...

..This paper describes its fundamentals, development, construction and applications in surgical planning, model-driven segmentation and neuroanatomy teaching...

..The "Anatomischen Tabellen" has been the first occidental text-book of anatomy to be translated into japanese to be published in 1774, supplied with numerous wooden engravings...

..His new and strict focus upon scientific illustration developed in the context of previous anatomists' work and theories, but his is a critical and previously untold story in the history of medicine...

..This framework not only captures current methods of anatomical data acquisition and analysis, it allows these studies to be collated, compared and synthesized within a single system...

..Microscopy, as a technique in scientific investigation, has had a key role in uncovering nature's beauty, which has led some to propose that microscopy could be described as an art or even an art form. But is this claim justified?..

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..It is wrong to judge foundational shifts in scientific culture merely by firsts...

..the physicians or scientists accompanied their texts with their own illustrations, and in the last century, medical illustration, in its infinite variety of techniques, has been developed as a profession in its own right...

..illustration can be used to provide insight into source data from CT/MRI scanners in much the same way as medical illustration depicts the important details of anatomical structures...

..The common use of digital cameras in departments of medical illustration have brought with them new problems, one of which is the variability of size of the CCD fitted to these ..

..Augustine Campus, University of West Indies, first established medical illustration as an organized profession within the public healthcare provision of Trinidad and Tobago...

b>Medical illustration has demonstrated its effectiveness to depict salient anatomical features while hiding the irrelevant details...

..The hospital Medical Illustration Department was involved in a supporting role to the clinical team dealing with the outbreak as well as ..

The Medical illustration Department within Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust is typical of many such units in the UK that are facing increasing competition from the commercial sector and Private Finance Initiatives, and at the same time, being ..

The Medical Illustration Department at West Glasgow Hospitals made a decision to construct a departmental website that would not only raise awareness of the department but also demonstrate the expertise in website construction the medical ..

This paper outlines the author's attempt to design and introduce a corporate identity into the Department of Medical Illustration at the South Buckinghamshire NHS Trust...

..The project will be written up in the style of an academic paper for the Institute's journal. Successful students will be awarded the BSc in Medical Illustration.

The Medical Illustration Service within West Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust found itself under threat of being classified as a non-clinical service...

Digital cameras have been used for clinical photography in the Medical Illustration Department at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust for eight years...

Most, if not all, medical illustration departments in the UK provide medical photography as a principal service...

..da Vinci (1452-1519) incorporates the symbiosis of art and medicine and can be addressed as the founder of medical illustration in the time of the Renaissance...

..The authors of this paper have both worked in large and small departments and were quite surprised by the similarities and differences between these two working experiences. Their impressions are shared here...

..define typical or atypical patterns of the spread of disease, or to illustrate normal or aberrant anatomy, medical illustration significantly affects learning ()...

The surgeon is a unique user of medical illustration. With both hands busy, necessarily occupying the space with the best view of what's going on, muffled by a mask and hemmed in by operating theatre personnel, the surgeon is not well-..

..Now that there are degree courses in Medical illustration an increasing number of medical illustrators in the UK are instigating their own research projects, making ..

..To seek information about current practice, a questionnaire was sent to randomly selected Medical Illustration Units across the United Kingdom...

..Now that there are degree courses in medical illustration an increasing number of medical illustrators in the UK are instigating their own research projects, making ..

There is very little published information on the roles and responsibilities of the Medical Illustration Department (MID) during Health Service major incidents...

..This is tempting medical illustration units to move into offering video production as part of their services...

..The BSc is a joint venture between GCU, who are the awarding academic institution, and the IMI, who are the professional examining body. The Institute hopes that it will become a standard qualification for the profession...

..This will also give some indication of the resources required for any department not currently running a service...

..first published photomicrographs harnessed recent technological developments to provide improved methods of medical illustration for educational purposes. Both projects were the work of two Frenchmen...

Both the Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital's Medical Illustration Departments have been using digital cameras since 1998...

..The evolution of 2D digital medical illustration will be characterized by the increasing density of information...

Within recent times medical illustration departments have been changed dramatically by computers and new working methods. For photographers and illustrators alike this has resulted in an overlap or 'blurring' of roles...

..describes mapping or codification of moral behaviour and the relationship to protocols or codes of practice, and concludes with a call to improve understanding and expertise in the study of ethics and its context in medical illustration.

..the Health Professions Council formally approved an application by the Council for the Accreditation of Medical Illustration Practitioners, and it is anticipated that clinical photographers will be amongst the first group of ..

..of medical illustrations of reproduction, this article considers the gains of an interdisciplinary study of medical illustration to both historians and medics...

..Habituation to the visual reinforcement can give misleading results. Medical Illustration ABM University Health Board has designed a collection of Flash animations to overcome this.

..We demonstrate the use of these approaches with examples of volume visualization, medical illustration, volume animation, and special effects.

..This paper attempts to clarify a rather confusing situation and demonstrate how the various initiatives will eventually link together to underpin the structure of medical illustration and healthcare science in the future.

..included storage on writable compact disc (CD) drives and a system for retrieving images from these devices which was flexible enough to handle the requirements of different specialities and be usable by all medical illustration staff.

..This paper recalls his use of camphor to induce epileptic fits, which were considered a remedy for psychosis. The initiation of the art of percussion by Auenbrugger is outlined, with a brief biographical sketch...

..On closer scrutiny, these distinctions sometimes fail to establish firm borders between the human and the technical...

..This will provide a better scientific basis for understanding normal smell perception as well as disorders of smell perception and memory in neurological disease. ..

..Seventh, these will be combined into an interactive visualizable and analytic tool set made available to the neuroscientific community. ..

..We propose to test the elements of this model with in vivo brain imaging using measures of basal activity and relational memory probes, correlating alterations in neural activity with characteristics of the illness. ..

..The results will be essential in identifying potential mechanisms by which CR acts in cancer prevention and delay of the aging process in long-lived species such as the rhesus monkey and humans. ..

..This, coupled with our successes in the active period of the Resource, positions us perfectly to continue the growth of our Resource. ..

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..We have the laboratory resources, faculty interest and expertise needed to run training program of this breadth and depth. ..

..The resulting validated, multimodality, multidimensional mouse atlas will have immense value for studying normal, mutant, healthy and diseased animals in a wide range of neuroscientific investigations. ..

..These data will have implications for understanding the mechanisms of the illness and for directing future new drug discovery for schizophrenia therapeutics. ..

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..All of this work will benefit from continued support and development by the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, and by the NEURON simulation environment team. ..

..We propose to test the elements of this model with in vivo brain imaging using measures of basal activity and relational memory probes, correlating alterations in neural activity with characteristics of the illness. ..

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..The proposed approach will provide a set of tools that address significant problems in data sharing and utilization. The resulting information technology will be scalable and applicable to other scientific data sharing problems. ..

..Concentration on mouse behaviors, neurochemistry and behavior will advance studies aimed at kinetic applications. ..

..Together, these features place the UTSWMC Department of Psychiatry in an ideal position to stimulate and train the next generation of basic and clinical psychiatric researchers. ..

..These data will predict and later help us to select optimal agonist intrinsic activity ior clinical testing for antipsychotic actvity, duration of therapeutic action, and side effects. ..

..Finally, this research represents the groundwork for development of a complete, standardized 3D atlas of human brain. ..

..The experiments described here will help the investigator achieve that goal. ..

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..The provision of such an instrumentation package would enhance the productivity of ongoing funded research and foster the development of leading edge technology and applications for all participants. ..

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..The results will therefore suggest new principles for the functioning of cortical modules, and for the neural basis of normal odor processing. ..

..Stress and anxiety disorders are estimated to affect 19.1 million people in the USA, costing $42 billion in health costs per year (source: Anxiety Disorders Association of America). ..

..A better understanding of the neuronal mechanisms underlying these disorders could lead to new, effective therapies and treatments. ..

..Defining these determinant influences will help enhance placebo responses in clinical practice and control them in clinical trials. ..

..Stress and anxiety disorders are estimated to affect 19.1 million people in the USA, costing $42 billion in health costs per year (source: Anxiety Disorders Association of America). ..

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