Other helpful resources that can be used in conjunction with the School of Medicine's Gross Anatomy Course.
Have a product for sale, but also have images on the Web for these bones: cranial, frontal, facial, sphenoid, TMJ, full skull.
Format: Website
Provider: Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, The University of Iowa
Free resource, Web-based; Somewhat interactive; lower limb and foot, vertebrae, head/neck, upper limb and hand.
Format: Website
Provider: University of Texas
This online encyclopedia provides access to over 50,000 high-quality medical images derived from Current Medicine’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by more than 2,000 contributing experts. The images can be used for internal and external lectures and for online teaching modules restricted to Duke students. Additional permission and fees must be obtained for use in commercial publications such as books, journals, and multimedia and Web-based educational modules.
Format: Database
Web based; Requires registration to ensure respect and privacy for patients who permitted their images to be used; Content: Back, Upper extremity, Head neck, Thorax, Abdomen. Pelvis Perineum, Lower Extremity. Includes x-ray, scans, cadaveric images; cross sections of CT scans and visible human images.
Format: Website
Provider: Loyola University
This is a cross-section tutorial derived from the Visible Human Project. Included are sections for Head and Neck, Upper Limb, Thorax (male and female), Abdomen, Pelvis (Male and Female) and Lower Limb.
Format: Website
This resource contains several mini-tutorials for Arteries, Nerves, Dermatones, Master Muscle List, Bone box and Cutaneous Innervation
Format: Website
This simple web-based tutorial is designed for entry level students studying neuroscience in undergraduate arts and medical courses. The target audience includes students who have no background in neuroscience and who are struggling with basic concepts. It is intended be used early in a course to bring such students up to the level of the remainder of the class. Basic events in neuronal function, e.g. establishment of the resting membrane potential, action potentials, neurotransmitter release, post-synaptic mechanisms and axonal transport, are explained using minimal text and interactive, two-dimensional animations. The interface is set up as a small booklet of eight chapters, each addressing one aspect of neuronal function. A link to “Downloadable Animations” is included for teachers who wish to include the animations in their lectures or tutorials.
Format: Website
An Academic Project sponsored by the Division of Anatomy and the Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT).
The Stanford Visible Female dataset, restricted to the female pelvis, is similar to the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. Both datasets are a series of digitized color photographs of human cryosections. They are being utilized in multiple ways, including in teaching human anatomy, basic research, and for developing 3D models of human anatomy.
However, the SVF project is unique in two important ways: the specimen is that of a 32 year old female and it was fixed in a standing position. These features are unlike the 59 year old post-menopausal Visible Human Female. The uterus and ovaries are those of a reproductive age female and do not reflect the atrophic signs of post-menopause. However, the data set is limited to the pelvic region, the sections are thicker, and CT or MRI images of the specimen are unavailable.
Format: Website
The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals.
The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project® is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.
Format: Website
Provider: NLM- NIH
