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World Premiere: True Interactivity!

We present a new feature on Radiolopolis which is the start of a new generation of teaching files: interactive image stacks. This feature allows our Radiolopolis members to excel by providing "whole" cases to the audience.

This feature has been implemented in cooperation with our affiliated Journal of Radiology Case Reports - which is the first and only journal that allows truly interactive usage of published articles to its readers (ref. 1).
Interactivity, such as scroll functions through image stacks, interactive annotations and window and level functions are unique and allow a review of the cases as the radiologist is used to it on diagnostic workstations.

Why are interactive features such as image stack scrolling and windowing important?

Traditionally, teaching files provide only selected images, which demonstrate the pathology or pertinent findings. This has not only a limited educational and practical value, because the user only receives selected information and cannot "find out" the answer on his own. But, what is more important is that this kind of provided information does not resemble the "real life" at the radiologist's workstation. After a diagnostic exam has been opened, the pathology does present immediately on the first image to the examiner. The entire stack of images needs to be scrolled through and the examiner has to find the pathology himself. Furthermore, scrolling through the stack of images helps to obtain an overview of the entire environment, including the anatomical relationship. To this time, no other site was able to provide such interactive features. Radiolopolis - together with the Journal of Radiology Case Reports -  however, offers as the first website such an opportunity - online and in real time!


Please see also the tutorial how to create these interactive image stacks (How to create tutorial) and cases and how to use them (How to use tutorial). We tried to make it as easy as possible - with only a few mouse clicks.

For questions, suggestions and bug reports, please post them in the Radiolopolis suggestions forum at: http://www.radiolopolis.com/suggestions


Enjoy the interactive teaching files!

The Radiolopolis Team

Reference 1: Talanow R. A new generation of journals is born. Radiology Case. 2008 Aug;2(1):5-7.
URL: http://www.radiologycases.com/index.php/radiologycases/article/view/26