title: Using Interactive 3D PDF for Exploring Complex Biomedical Data: Experiences and Solutions.
abstract: The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most commonly used file format for the exchange of electronic documents. A lesser-known feature of PDF is the possibility to embed three-dimensional models and to display these models interactively with a qualified reader. This technology is well suited to present, to explore and to communicate complex biomedical data. This applies in particular for data which would suffer from a loss of information if it was reduced to a static two-dimensional projection. In this article, we present applications of 3D PDF for selected scholarly and clinical use cases in the biomedical domain. Furthermore, we present a sophisticated tool for the generation of respective PDF documents.
authors: Medical Applications Team, Method Park Engineering GmbH, Erlangen.
authors: Axel
authors: A
authors: Newe
authors: Institute of Human Movement Science and Health, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, TU Chemnitz.
authors: Linda
authors: L
authors: Becker
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software