The JayDoc HistoWeb is a great example of what can be accomplished when a group of highly motivated people come together with a common cause. One of the main strengths of this atlas is that it is presented from the student point of view. The point of view of the student comes from Milton Wolf and Marc Scarbrough . Milton and Marc took the Cell and Tissue Biology Course in Spring, 1996. During the following summer they worked together with the faculty of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology to produce the HistoWeb site. The images contained in the Histoweb site were obtained by taking photomicrographs of the tissue slides that are provided to the medical students taking the Cell and Tissue Biology Course. Marc and Milton searched through these slides to pick the best specimen for photography. The images were captured onto Kodak slide film so as to produce the highest quality image. Throughout the process the quality and accuracy of the images were supervised by the faculty of the Cell and Tissue Biology course, especially Dr. Kuen-Shan Hung, the course director. After the arduous task of obtaining quality images of the tissues, the slides were digitized by Dr. James Fishback in the Department of Pathology. Marc and Milton organized the slides into groups that mirror the laboratory excercises in the Cell and Tissue Biology Course. Marc and Milton wrote brief descriptions to go along with the images, and the faculty of the Cell and Tissue Biology course then edited the pages for clarity and content. In order to present the material from the student point of view the faculty endeavored to retain the student perspective in the descriptions wherever possible. The final product of this interaction is the JayDoc HistoWeb site.
Support for the JayDoc HistoWeb site was provided by the Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Dr. Joe Besharse. Special thanks goes to Dr. Anne Walling, Dr. Ken Kallail, Dr. Jane Murray and Lynn LeCount of the Primary Care Physician Education office. Salary support for Milton and Marc was provided through the Primary Care Physician Education grant. The Primary Care Physician Education office supported the project in order to provide an educational resource that would be available to all primary care physicians. Thus, the HistoWeb site was created for all physicians, both today's and tomorrow's.
"Marc Scarbrough and Milton Wolf did a tremendous job in putting together this site. The proof is in the pudding, so to speak, and the HistoWeb is a terrific product. I am extremely proud of the effort put forth by both Marc and Milton"--Michael J. Werle, Ph.D.
| Authors | Milton Wolf & Marc Scarbrough |
| Faculty Directors | Drs. Kuen-Shan Hung & Mike Werle |
| Editing & Academic Support | Faculty Teaching Anatomy 830 |
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Joseph Besharse, Ph.D. A.L. Chapman, Ph.D. Robert De Lisle, Ph.D. Dianne Durham, Ph.D. George Enders, Ph.D. Vincent Gattone, Ph.D. Kuen-Shan Hung, Ph.D. Joan Hunt, Ph.D. Robert Klein, Ph.D. Ron MacGregor, Ph.D. Kathy Roby, Ph.D. Peggy Sellner, Ph.D. Mike Werle, Ph.D. |
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| Photomicrography | Marc Scarbrough & Milton Wolf |
| Photography Support & Equipment | Mike Werle |
| Additional Images | Drs. George Enders, Joan Hunt, Kuen-Shan Hung, Vincent Gattone, Mike Werle, Peggy Selner, Dianne Durham |
| Image Digitilization | James Fishback, MD |
| Financial Support | Primary Care Physicians Education Grant and The Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology |
| Tissue Slide Preparation | Airlean Bowls & Rosetta Barkley |
| HTML Editing | Todd Krouse |
| Pulse Support | Cheryl Scheer & Amy Moors |
| Technical Support | Charles Rezak |
| CD Graphics | Karen Chinn |
Tissue slides were supplied by the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Images were obtained by Marc Scarbrough & Milton Wolf with a Zeiss Axioskop microscope equipped with an MC-80 automatic 35mm camera attachment. The objectives used were:
Images were captured onto Kodak Ektachrome Daylight slide film (ASA 64). Additional images were supplied by the faculty teaching Anatomy 830 Cell & Tissue Biology. The slides were digitized with a Nikon CoolScan LS-1000 at 600 dpi and ultimately stored as JPEGs. Images were digitally enhanced using Photoshop 3.0 software.