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

  • S. Tabakov
  • , V. C. Roberts
  • , B. A. Jonsson
  • , M. Ljungberg
  • , C. A. Lewis
  • , R. Wirestam
  • , S. E. Strand
  • , I. L. Lamm
  • , F. Milano
  • , A. Simmons
  • , C. Deane
  • , D. Goss
  • , V. Aitken
  • , A. Noel
  • , J. Y. Giraud
  • , S. Sherriff
  • , P. Smith
  • , G. Clarke
  • , M. Almqvist
  • , T. Jansson

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)591-598
Number of pages8
JournalMedical Engineering and Physics
Volume27
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2005

Keywords

  • Medical physics education
  • Medical physics training
  • e-Learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biomedical Engineering

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