Digital Histology: An Interactive CD Atlas with Review Text - Softcover

Pakurar, Alice S.; Bigbee, John W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471649821 ISBN 13: 9780471649823

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

This multimedia resource offers a complete introduction to histology with superb clear and thoroughly labelled images and illustrations within an elegant navigation structure. Digital Histology is an interactive, annotated digital atlas of over 700 original micrographs, along with an accompanying review text. It is ideal for use as a tool for teaching, self-instruction, and self-assessment, as it was initially designed to replace or augment the laboratory component of graduate and undergraduate courses.

About this title

About the Author

Alice S. Pakurar, Ph.D. and John W. Bigbee, Ph.D., both hold professorships in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University. Her excellence in teaching has been recognized by numerous teaching awards.

From the Back Cover

With medical and dental schools seeking to reduce the amount of course laboratory time, Digital Histology provides a comprehensive course on histology through images, eliminating the need for a scheduled laboratory.

Digital Histology is an interactive, annotated atlas with over 750 original, digitized microscope images accompanied by detailed descriptions and optional labels. Both the CD and text components of this multimedia resource follow the same organizational scheme for easy navigation and better comprehension. Other features include:

• Randomized order of viewing images?especially helpful for taking quizzes and reviewing
• Handy navigational menu bar?linear and nonlinear access to any screen while also showing user?s current position in the large volume of content
• Self-grading quizzes with answers, including detailed explanations
• A help mode?offering animated explanations of primary program features
• Superb image quality

A one-stop introduction to histology, Digital Histology gives the user both a conceptual overview and the descriptive histology of its various topics, which are organized into sections covering cells, tissues, and organs and systems. An excellent tool for teaching, self-instruction, and self-assessment, Digital Histology offers a clear and concise presentation of histology through an exhaustive and dynamic set of images and illustrations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471649821
• ISBN 13: 9780471649823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248