Creation of Stereo-paired Bone Anatomical Charts Using Human Bone Specimens for Radiation Education

In radiological examinations of patients, we often take stacked images and three-dimensional (3D) images of human bone radiological images such as X-ray images and CT images. In general, learning of bone structure using specialized anatomy books is currently performed at medical radiological technologist education facilities. In the anatomy education of the medical school, in order to understand the structure of human and the individual bone shapes in detail, a real human bone specimen is used to gain knowledge of skeleton, bone shape, bone name and bone function. But it is actually difficult for a radiological technologist to obtain such learning opportunities. Therefore, we had to depend on two-dimensional information from an anatomical atlas so far. Therefore, as a method to solve this, we devised this stereo-paired bone anatomical chart by stereoscopic photography of a real human bone specimen that is available only in the anatomy laboratory. In classical anatomy textbooks, there are no figures that enable us to view 3D structures of human bones. Our stereo-paired bone anatomical charts make it possible to observe accurate bone structures three-dimensionally. In addition, we saved the data as a PDF file and uploaded to an internet server so that we can freely download and readily observe 3D images of human bones at all times and all places with a tablet or a PC monitor.