title: Development of educational image databases and e-books for medical physics training.
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.
authors.affiliation: slavik.tabakov@kcl.ac.uk
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authors.lastname: Tabakov
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mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000193:education*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000379:methods*; D005062:European Union; D006283:Health Physics / Q000193:education; D020407:Internet; D019212:Multimedia