Since the past two months, students of DM Cardiology at SCTIMST, have been engaged in an exciting project, one that has given them better insight into the intricacies of the heart and the structures around it and one that promises to make them better doctors.
Utilising radiological images of the heart (CT and MRI scans) and using a new software as an interface, the residents have been creating a repository of 3D graphical images of the heart as is seen in various complex congenital heart diseases (CHD). They have been uploading data and case studies alongside, so that the complex anatomy of CHDs is unravelled and made simple enough for a layman to understand the difference between a normal heart and an anomalous one.
This has been made possible through a novel stereoscopic visualisation tool, one that was initially envisaged for teaching the intricacies of neuroanatomy to MBBS students .
