Medical Visualisation & Human Anatomy
Facilities
Digital Design Studio is located within purpose built facilities at The Hub within the centre of Scotland’s new Digital Media Quarter at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. A range of research and teaching spaces fitted out with state of the art technology allows the DDS to progress within a truly world-class facility. Students have access to their own computer for the duration of the programme.
Lab1 at Digital Design Studio, GSA
Lab1 provides state of the art immersive Virtual Reality technology via a high-definition 13m x 8m stereoprojected display. The full body and object tracking facilities coupled with the latest in sound technology results in a multisensory VR experience. From a technical perspective, Lab1 is amongst the best in the world with the largest stereo projection space in Europe. The Virtual Reality facilities at the Digital Design Studio encompass a wide range of interaction devices such as vibro-tactile and grasp CyberTouch glove that tracks hand movement and provides vibro-tactile feedback to the fingertips and palm; desktop haptic probes which have been used to simulate a wide range of medical procedures, ranging from lumbar punctures to dental injections and nerve blocks; 3D laser scanner; full body motion tracking system; ambisonic sound lab; sound post-production studios; and video editing studio.
Anatomy Lab at Glasgow University
The Laboratory of Human Anatomy at the School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow is one of the largest Anatomy departments in Europe with five Licensed Teachers of Anatomy, licensed by the Scottish Parliament. It has approximately 8000 people on the Bequest Register, and each year receives more than 50 cadavers in the Laboratory for teaching and research purposes. The Laboratory is involved in undergraduate teaching, delivering to medical (1200 students), dental (over 400), nursing (150 students) and science students (approximately 1500 students) and postgraduate teaching to trainees across a multi-disciplinary range including surgeons, podiatrists, nurses, first aiders, physiotherapists and sports therapists. With the large numbers on the bequethal register, and with such high capacity for storage, coupled with the fact that each student will be working on one part of the body (e.g. arm, thigh, heart etc.), means there is ample suitable material for use by the students. In addition, the LHA is the only place in the world to have access to the Hunterian anatomical collection, which can also act as an additional resource depending on the nature of the studies undertaken.
