Presentation Title:

Integration of Movies and Image Maps in a Head and Neck Atlas

Phyllis A. Slott, Ph.D.

NYU College of Dentistry

Abstract:

Dental students need to be well acquainted with the intricacies of human head and neck anatomy. The explosion of knowledge in many biomedical fields has led to increased demands on the students. As a consequence, there is pressure to reduce the amount of time spent on dissecting so that students have more time to devote to the other disciplines. The anatomy faculty at NYUCD is attempting to make the reduced amount of lab time more effective by developing an HTML-coded CD-ROM head and neck atlas to use as an adjunct to dissecting. We hope to make the dissections more efficient by ensuring that students have prior familiarity with the structures. Two major concerns are (1) teaching the anatomy of the skull as a base from which to extend knowledge of the head and neck and (2) teaching the relationship between neighboring body structures using the cross-sections in the Visible Human Dataset before the student starts to dissect. The usual form of an atlas is a book containing labeled structures from which it is difficult to extract overviews unless one reads the textbook at the same time. We are attempting to streamline this unwieldy practice by using videos linked to image maps. The familiarity of the browser interface, the ability to show motion and the requirement of active student participation when using image maps, are advantages of an HTML-coded atlas. We demonstrate the integration of movies of the human skull and of the Visible Human dataset with image maps of their respective materials to provide a substrate for learning some head and neck anatomy before dissecting.

Benefit in attending:

Some of the benefits of the demonstration to viewers include seeing how easily and inexpensively multimedia instruction can be added to the traditional anatomy curriculum. The atlas was constructed using a digital camera, the Visible Human dataset, Adobe’s Premiere and PhotoShop, and the Mitsubishi Electric Company’s Visual Shock Movie Editor.

PRIMARY AUTHOR'S INFORMATION

Phyllis A. Slott, Ph.D.

NYUCD/Div. of Basic Sciences

345 E. 24th Street/Rm. 830S

New York NY 10010-4086

Telephone Number: (212) 998-9553

Fax Number: (212) 995-4087

E-mail Address: pas1@is2.nyu.edu

CO-AUTHORS' INFORMATION

Inder Jit Singh, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Anthony R. Mercurio, Ph.D.

Arvind Suthar, B.D.S., B. Sc., M. Sc.