Many statues of doctors have been erected in Paris. Sadly, many bronze monuments were deliberately destroyed during the Second World War, including memorials to Claude Bernard, Broca, Charcot, Pean, Raspail and Ricord, and to Berlioz who was a medical student in Paris. Only those of Bernard and Berlioz were replaced ...

The early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo divides with a stereotyped pattern of cleavages to produce cells that vary in developmental potential. Differences in cleavage plane orientation arise between the anterior and posterior cells of the 2-cell embryo as a result of asymmetries in centrosome positioning. Mechanisms that position centrosomes are thought ...

This is a brief account of the scientific history of radiology and its use in medical imaging. The approach is untraditional as the narrative is highlighted with reproductions of selected postage stamps. These illustrations add a new dimension to the presentation of important events leading to the discovery and development ...

I2Cnet (Image Indexing by Content network) aims to provide services related to the content-based management of images in healthcare over the World-Wide Web. Each I2Cnet server maintains an autonomous repository of medical images and related information. The annotation service of I2Cnet allows specialists to interact with the contents of the ...

We present a compact diode-end-pumped Nd:YAG amplifier with a FWHM angular bandwidth of 100 degrees . Using a 1.064-microm probe beam, we measured a 2-pass gain of 23 (13.6dB) and a 4-pass gain of 420 (26.2dB). High-gain image amplification with such a laser amplifier is also demonstrated.

Standards development in medical imaging originated in the field of radiology and has rapidly spread to numerous other medical specialties. Pathology is well represented in this effort, and it benefits from interoperability made possible by the utilization of the DICOM 3.0 standard in the fabrication of pathology workstations. Because there ...

The medical illustrator is confronted with the problem of accurately representing three-dimensional form, more than most other illustrators or graphic artists. Often the illustrator who feels competent when working achromatically finds himself feeling insecure when attempting a full-color illustration. With some illustrators, a sense of color seems to be inborn. ...

Microcomputer 3D software can create useful references for 2D medical illustrations. When combined with the layering capability of illustration software like Photoshop these illustrations based on renders from 3D reference materials may be used to create small, stratified visual databases. The evolution of 2D digital medical illustration will be characterized ...

Illustrated manuscripts of Roger Frugardi's Chirurgia (c. 1180) form but a small proportion of extant manuscripts in Latin or in any of the medieval vernaculars. We study the single de luxe illustrated Latin manuscript of the work which is notable for its extensive programme of over 100 medical illustrations. We ...

Nearly 300 people attended the Society's annual Leadership Conference, held May 2-3, 1995, at the Harrisburg Hilton and Towers. This year's theme, "Coping with Kaleidoscopic Change," was developed by the Leadership Conference Committee to portray the constantly changing images of the health care marketplace in Pennsylvania, as well as nationwide. ...

In October 1993, DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) Version 3.0 was approved by the ACR-NEMA committee as an ACR-NEMA standard for medical image interchange. At about the same time, IPI (Image Processing and Interchange) was approved as an ISO standard for general imaging. Within the European Committee for ...

In this paper, the authors pay tribute to Jean Martin Charcot in the centenary of his death (16th August 1893), concentrating on his artistic sense and drawing ability. The authors give some examples of the drawings Charcot used to illustrate his Tuesday Lessons at Salpêtrière, together with his highly precise ...

G. K. Humphrey, A. M. Herbert, L. A. Symons, and S. Kara (1994) and J. Broerse and P. Grimbeek (1994) suggested that the form-contingent color aftereffect reported by S. Siegel, L. G. Allan, and T. Eissenberg (1992) would not be obtained if Ss were instructed to scan the induction and ...

This paper is attempting given a summery of the major building blocks and driving forces in the developments of medical informatics and medical imaging in special. The role of multi-media and broadband communication will be described. The paper should give an indication where the author sees medical imaging in the ...

A view on PACS is given from a radiology department involved in PACS as part of its medical research environment. Special attention is payed to historical developments in medical imaging to study the context of actual PACS developments. Some directions of future diagnostic developments are indicated. Both image data-acquisition and ...

The prevention of nuclear was logically implies the abolition of war itself. Approaches to the prevention of war founder on a paradox: as long as war is a credible option, measures to prevent war must be balanced against their negative effect on the conduct of a war if war breaks ...

Transesophageal color flow Doppler imaging of mitral mechanical prostheses is now widely used. This method eliminates the frequent problems of acoustic shadowing and flow masking that are commonly seen with a transthoracic Doppler study of mechanical mitral prostheses. Transesophageal color flow Doppler imaging was performed postoperatively in seven patients who ...

Between 1903 and America's entrance into World War I, journalist and psychologist H. Addington Bruce wrote numerous articles and books about psychology for the lay reader. At a time when widespread differences existed between psychologists as to subject matter and methods of study, he cultivated a decidedly Progressive image of ...

Mildred Codding was Dr. Harvey Cushing's medical illustrator and was closely involved with many of his original articles and books. From a recent interview with her we gained many insights into life as a medical artist for the father of modern neurosurgery, both in and outside of the operating room. ...

Medical imaging tools that radiologists as well as a wide range of clinicians and healthcare professionals have come to depend upon are emerging into the next phase of functionality. The strides being made in supercomputing technologies--including reduction of size and price--are pushing medical imaging to a new level of accuracy ...

Featured here is a look at the career of medical illustrator Leon Schlossberg. A charter member of the Association of Medical Illustrators, he was presented the 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 45th Annual AMI meeting in Philadelphia. For over 50 years, Schlossberg has served as illustrator and educator. Through ...

Three-dimensional medical imaging methodologies are surveyed with respect to hardware versus software, stand-alone versus on-the-scanner, speed, interaction, rendering methodology, fidelity, ease of use, cost, and quantitative capability. The question of volume versus surface rendering is considered in more detail. Research results are cited to illustrate the capabilities discussed.

This article deals with the image of war as expressed in Finnish medical periodicals from the year 1849 till the creation of IPPNW at the beginning of the 1980s. Medical science has served the building up of our national state, and has focused on the acute injuries or diseases of ...

Jack Elinson raises somewhat rhetorical questions about the value of medical care and medical sociology. Behind them is a serious concern with the type and scope of medicalisation in modern society as well as its sociological criticism. This raises the issue of whether the various theoretical images of medicine and ...

Within the past decade, alkyd paint was introduced as one of the leading contenders for a new color painting medium. The paint has been proven to be durable and to blend as easily as oil. Because of the ideal drying time for easy blending and because of its durability and ...

This study examined the impact of repeated exposure to combat on combat stress reaction (CSR). Soldiers diagnosed with CSR during the Lebanon War (N = 382) were compared with a matched control group of soldiers who fought in the same units but did not manifest symptoms of CSR (N = ...

The spatial resolution and contrast resolution required of a multiformat camera (MFC) for medical imaging are discussed. A typical cathode-ray tube (CRT) MFC and a prototype laser MFC are compared based on the following measured quantities: line spread function and associated contrast transfer function, noise characteristics, intensity transfer function (dynamic ...

The beta emitting isotopes 186Re and 188Re are logical choices on which to base therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals that might be expected to be analogous to diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals based on 99mTc. However, the chemistry of rhenium is sufficiently different from that of technetium so that the development of Re radiopharmaceuticals often cannot ...

This segment on color usage in medical illustration concerns itself with formulas and instruction for the coloration of skin tones, internal organs, and selected body tissues. Color formulas which have been gleaned from both subjective observation and experimentation are suggested. These are based on artwork which has been produced and ...

Attractive landscaping can contribute considerably to a medical group's overall image. There is more that goes into landscaping property than selecting greenery that suits the design of the building. Landscaping is a living thing that must be maintained. Unless it is properly planned and attended, the expensive greenery can become ...

Two radioiodinated analogs of benzoylcholine were investigated as possible myocardial-imaging agents. O-([2-125I]Iodobenzoyl)-choline and N-([2-125I]iodobenzoyl)cholamine were prepared by nucleophilic substitution of sodium [125I]iodide for stable iodine in O-(N,N]dimethylaminoethyl)-2-iodobenzoate and N-(N',N'-dimethylaminoethyl)-2-iodobenzamide, respectively, and by methylation with methyl iodide. The in vivo distribution of each compound in mice was determined as a function ...

Transparent media, such as watercolor, acrylic, and dyes, have been used by scientific illustrators for centuries. This article gives one artist's view of the highly complex medium. Materials, techniques, short cuts, and potential problem areas are discussed. Illustrations of specific techniques and a step-by-step development of a medical illustration is ...