Development of educational image databases and e-books for medical physics training

TY - JOUR

T1 - Development of educational image databases and e-books for medical physics training

AU - Tabakov, S

AU - Roberts, V C

AU - Jonsson, B A

AU - Ljungberg, M

AU - Lewis, C A

AU - Wirestam, R

AU - Strand, S E

AU - Lamm, I L

AU - Milano, F

AU - Simmons, A

AU - Deane, C

AU - Goss, D

AU - Aitken, V

AU - Noel, A

AU - Giraud, J Y

AU - Sherriff, S

AU - Smith, P

AU - Clarke, G

AU - Almqvist, M

AU - Jansson, T

PY - 2005/9

Y1 - 2005/9

N2 - Medical physics education and training requires the use of extensive imaging material and specific explanations. These requirements provide an excellent background for application of e-Learning. The EU projects Consortia EMERALD and EMIT developed five volumes of such materials, now used in 65 countries. EMERALD developed e-Learning materials in three areas of medical physics (X-ray diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy). EMIT developed e-Learning materials in two further areas: ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. This paper describes the development of these e-Learning materials (consisting of e-books and educational image databases). The e-books include tasks helping studying of various equipment and methods. The text of these PDF e-books is hyperlinked with respective images. The e-books are used through the readers' own Internet browser. Each Image Database (IDB) includes a browser, which displays hundreds of images of equipment, block diagrams and graphs, image quality examples, artefacts, etc. Both the e-books and IDB are engraved on five separate CD-ROMs. Demo of these materials can be taken from www.emerald2.net. (c) 2005 IPEM. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

AB - Medical physics education and training requires the use of extensive imaging material and specific explanations. These requirements provide an excellent background for application of e-Learning. The EU projects Consortia EMERALD and EMIT developed five volumes of such materials, now used in 65 countries. EMERALD developed e-Learning materials in three areas of medical physics (X-ray diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy). EMIT developed e-Learning materials in two further areas: ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. This paper describes the development of these e-Learning materials (consisting of e-books and educational image databases). The e-books include tasks helping studying of various equipment and methods. The text of these PDF e-books is hyperlinked with respective images. The e-books are used through the readers' own Internet browser. Each Image Database (IDB) includes a browser, which displays hundreds of images of equipment, block diagrams and graphs, image quality examples, artefacts, etc. Both the e-books and IDB are engraved on five separate CD-ROMs. Demo of these materials can be taken from www.emerald2.net. (c) 2005 IPEM. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

U2 - 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.11.012

DO - 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.11.012

M3 - Article

VL - 27

SP - 591

EP - 598

JO - Medical Engineering and Physics

JF - Medical Engineering and Physics

IS - 7

ER -