Computer graphics in medical illustration.
The advent of powerful personal computers (PC) has revolutionised the production of graphic illustrations in the various disciplines of medicine. This paper reviews the current hardware devices and software programmes available in the personal computer market for the generation, processing and production of graphic output in medical illustration for the purposes of teaching and presentation. A low-cost method of generating high quality presentation slides on IBM-PC based systems is also outlined.
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Department of Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
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D003196:Computer Graphics; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003626:Data Display; D008488:Medical Illustration; D011381:Programming Languages; D011643:Publishing; D012984:Software