A trial of making tactile charts by using a personal computer in the allied health professional education for blind students

对于正在学习针灸或理疗的学生来说，临床医学是必修课，但这需要大量的图片和照片来进行诊断成像。制作触觉图表是为了帮助完全失明的学生了解诊断成像。由X射线、超声波、核磁共振和放射性核素成像制成的医学图像是在灰度X射线胶片上形成的。我们研究了编辑规则，根据诊断成像的不同方法，简化了X射线和放射性核素成像生成的原始图像，并将其转换为触觉图表，以帮助完全失明的学生更好地理解临床医学。这些触觉图表中的一些已经进行了评估。

Clinical medicine is mandatory for students who are learning acupuncture or physical therapy, but this entails numerous pictures and photographs for diagnostic imaging. Tactile charts were made to help totally blind students to understand about diagnostic imaging. Medical images made by x-rays, ultrasound, MRI and radionuclide imaging are formed on gray-scale x-ray films. We investigated editing rules to simplify original images made by x-rays and radionuclide imaging according to the respective method of diagnostic imaging and to convert them into tactile charts to help totally blind students to better understand clinical medicine. Some of these tactile charts have been evaluated.