Biomedical Engineering and Design
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Information specific to BME and BME/CBID design teams.
Anatomy Tools and Data
Anatomy Atlases (from the library catalog)
Anatomy TV (Primal Pictures) Interactive Anatomy
- provides more than 5,000 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations, and more
- manipulate the images by rotating, zooming, and peeling away layers, while viewing accompanying text
- anatomy visuals are accompanied by 3D animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures
- FOR HELP - This HELP page will ask you which product you want help with, and then list tutorials
- The Welch Medical Library has tutorials about using this on their YouTube channel.
3D Anthropometric Data -- This is the interactive model repository at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- Dr. Matthew Reed (head of the Biosciences Group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute) compiled a list of "all of the public anthropometry data, much of which derives from U.S. Military surveys and the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES)"
- The list includes data for adults and children, including for small-female, midsize-male, and large-male pelvis geometry
Calculators (from UpToDate)
- This page will help you calculate body weights, Apgar scores, and other numbers need for emergency medicine, pediatrics, and more
- It's okay to "accept" the license that might pop up
- This database also includes information about medical devices -- for example, enter the words pressure sensor
PubMed and Embase
PubMed: To find lengths and dimensions of human bodies or parts, use this thesaurus ("MeSH") heading:
- into the main search box, paste "Body Weights and Measures"[Mesh] AND
- then add your search words after the AND
Embase: Use their thesaurus ("EMTREE"), which uses the term anthropometry
- that page will also give you synonyms that you can use to search, so that you get more results
- remember to put two or more words in quotation marks so that they're searched together
Reviews and Comparisons (from the Cochrane Library)
- This collection has full-text access to comparisons among treatments, and evidence about which are more effective
- Here is a quick reference sheet , including definitions of "review" and "protocol"