The Wonder of 3-D graphics meets the study of Human Anatomy British company set to revolutionise medical teachingPrimal Pictures presents a revolution in medical education: The Interactive Skeleton CD-ROM. An award-winning computerised digital skeleton that is so realistic, it almost walks out of the screen.
Using advanced computer graphics techniques combined with its own software, Primal Pictures has managed to take raw x-ray CT scan data and transform it into a three-dimensional computer graphic - a computer model that records a remarkable level of detail about the human frame.
In a world first, this complete 3-D digital skeleton has been placed on a PC CD-ROM, and published by Mosby Multimedia, a division of Times Mirror International, one of the largest media companies in the world. Now medical students everywhere can discard their real skeleton specimens, and replace them with a digital version.
In fact, real skeletons are scarce and expensive, and imports of specimens from the third world were banned a number of years ago. With the help of a grant from the Employment Department, eighteen months ago Primal Pictures set about providing students with the digital alternative. The first stage was recreating a skeleton from Computerised Tomography (CT) scan slices of a specimen recorded at a remarkable 1/2 mm intervals.
Working with the Medical Physics Department at University College, London, Primal Pictures has succeeded in building a skeleton that looks just like a photograph, yet can be manipulated in 3-D on a computer screen.
Fly around this 3-D skeleton model, just like a virtual reality game. Start a movie sequence to glide around the 3-D model. Now, label 3-D hotspots in the images, and see where muscles are attached to the skeleton. Or, during your journey, read text written by one of the world's leading clinical anatomists, Dr Peter Abrahams of Cambridge University.
Test yourself on every bone in the body. Or use the index to find any feature on the skeleton.
Using an ordinary multimedia PC or Macintosh, you can view The Interactive Skeleton in all its detail. The objective of The Interactive Skeleton is simple: to use new technology not only to replace, but go beyond the limitations of, the real skeleton specimen, and to place the power of the latest 3-D computer graphics into everyone's hands.
The Interactive Skeleton CD-ROM is now on sale at an affordable price - £ 49.95 + VAT. A fantastic journey into human anatomy that will appeal not just to medical students, but to anyone who wonders at the miracle of the human body.
Statistics about
The Interactive Skeleton
2000 stills
1000 movies
400 pages of text
30 minutes of sound clips
1500 separately labelled features
.....all on one CD-ROM.
Every bone in complete detail. And in 3-D.
The Interactive Skeleton began life as a collaboration between the Medical Physics Department at University College, London and Primal Pictures. The project received its grant from the Employment Department's Learning Methods Branch.
This demonstration version of the Interactive Skeleton provides a restricted implementation of the full version.Hence, certain features of the full program are not implemented in the demonstration version. For More Information Contact
Laurie Wiseman at:Primal Pictures Ltd.
4th Floor, 16-18 Ramillies StreetLondon W1V 1DLTel 0171 434 4300Fax 0171 494 367035mm reproductions of images from the Interactive Skeleton available on request.
For details of how to purchase the Interactive Skeleton, contact Nawsher Ali, Multimedia Manager at:Times Mirror International Publishers Ltd.Lynton House7-12 Tavistock SqLondon WC1H 9LB, EnglandTel 0171 391 6429 Fax 0171 391 6556e-mail: nawshera@genadmin.tmip.comor the Times Mirror International Publishers customer service centre at:Times Mirror International Publishers Ltd.Customer Service CentreUnit1, Sheldon WayLarkfieldAylesfordKent ME20 6SFTel 0171 391 6464Fax 0171 391 6599
