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

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

doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.11.012

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

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. - In: MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS. - ISSN 1350-4533. - STAMPA. - 27:(2005), pp. 591-598. [10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.11.012]