Digital Histology
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Digital Histology is an interactive, online, openly licensed histology text and atlas that presents all the topics covered in professional, graduate, and undergraduate histology courses. It offers many unique and distinctive features beyond statically-labeled atlases, including:
- On-demand, dynamic labeling.
- Menu-driven navigation that reinforces broader concepts in histology.
- Descriptive introductory text for each image as well additional descriptions for labeled structures.
- Chapter and section overviews including over 75 original diagrams.
- Over 1000 high quality, high resolution histological images.
- Interactive quizzes with feedback.
- An outline-style review text that contains hyperlinks to images in the main program.
- Randomization of images, including hiding of labels for an additional self-assessment mode.
- Ability to include hyperlinks to virtual microscopy slides.
- Cross-platform compatibility across devices and screen sizes.
Learn more by watching this introductory video.
The full project team was:
- John Bigbee, Ph.D. and Alice S. Pakurar, Ph.D. (Coauthors)
- Kenneth Warren Foster, Ed.D. and Thomas W. Woodward, MS (Design Coordinators)
- Carole W. Christman, Ph.D. (Medical Illustrator)
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
- Office of Faculty Affairs, VCU School of Medicine
- ALT Lab of VCU
Accessibility Note
Content is digitally accessible 2026
Publication Date
9-2021
Publisher
VCU Libraries
Keywords
Histology--Atlases, Histology--Handbooks, Manuals, etc
Rights
Copyright © 2021 by John W. Bigbee
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Disciplines
Anatomy
Recommended Citation
Bigbee, J. W. 2021. Digital Histology. VCU Libraries. https://digitalhistology.org/
Comments
Publication of this book was made possible by the Virginia Commonwealth University Affordable Course Content Awards grant program.