We present a new approach for connecting textual and graphical information within interactive systems for medical illustration. In contrast to earlier approaches where text is used to label a predeened image, we focus on interaction based on long given texts. Thus our approach resembles work with medical textbooks rather than anatomical atlases. We aim at the creation of images and animations b...

The use of roentgenograms of post mortem fixed brain tissue slices for demonstrating the extent, density, and distribution of radio-opaque material is not new. As early as 1909 Frankel (3) demonstrated the distribution of cerebral calcification by means of roentgen films of tissue slices. Although he apparently presented these films while reading his paper, no reproductions were ever printed, a...