Dissecting Art, Intersecting Anatomy - Medical illustration

Pauline Lariviere was an artist whose main contributions were made to the field of medical illustration. As a scientist in the medical field, medical illustrations are essential to education. I have already spent some hours drawing something in the computer for a paper or presentation. In old times, all illustrations were done by hand, but nowadays computers play an important role and medical images are often used as a basis to medical illustrations. Here is an example of a medical illustration based on a CT scan:


The video is about an exhibition which pays a tribute to Pauline Lariviere.

Dissecting Art; Intersecting Anatomy from Phillip Schalekamp on Vimeo.

More about the history of medical illustration and the role of computers can be read in:
Tsafrir, J., & Ohry, A. (2001). Medical illustration: from caves to cyberspace‡ Health Information & Libraries Journal, 18 (2), 99-109 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-1842.2001.d01-16.x
Corl, F., Garland, M., & Fishman, E. (2000). Role of Computer Technology in Medical Illustration American Journal of Roentgenology, 175 (6), 1519-1524 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.175.6.1751519

Procrastination with Coursera

Coursera is a place where you can take online courses from some of the best universities of the world (EPFL, Duke University...) and more universities are joining every month. You just have to register for the course and follow it weekly (on your own schedule). You might have assignments and everything. This is all completely free. There are so many courses that I think I didn't look at them all. Nevertheless, I point you to some that are interesting:

Medical Neuroscience
Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Writing in the Sciences
Image and Video Processing
Digital Image Processing
Computational Methods for Data Analysis
High Performance Scientific Computing
Introduction to Data Science

Educational Radiology

Radiopaedia is wiki-based collaborative website. It is rapidly growing and has been primarily compiled by radiology residents or fellows from across the world. The site's collective aim is to create the best radiology reference available, and to make it available for FFF: Free, Forever and For all.

http://radiopaedia.org/


The physics section (radiopaedia.org/encyclopaedia/phsyics) is still small, but already has interesting articles:
1.5T vs 3T
Inverse Square Law
Electron-Positron Annihilation

Medical Imaging scientists out there, let's contribute to this website too! Do you know other wiki-based websites in medical imaging?