Finding Images
This resource guide provides links and tools to aid you in finding medical images to print or download. If you have any questions please contact the Reference Desk at 314-362-7085, or email the Guide's Editor
Guide Editor: Reference Staff
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Non-Subscription Resources |
| AltaVista Image Search Type a query and click the Search button. AltaVista retrieves images that contain your search words in their file names, ALT text, nearby text and/or the page metatags. |
| Google's Image Search The most comprehensive image search on the web. |
| Hardin MD: Medical Pictures/Disease Pictures A link to medical images provided through the Hardin MetaDirectory of the University of Iowa. |
| HEAL - Health Education Assets Library The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners. |
| Images from the History of Medicine - From the National Library of Medicine This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. |
| myPACS A web-based service that allows radiologists to manage their own medical image repositories. Radiologists often keep files of interesting cases for sharing with residents and colleagues or for use in slides or publications. MyPACS allows "radiologists to immediately begin authoring cases through thier web browser, while maintaining complete control over the content and accessibility of their own collection." This is a free service to the international community, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. |
| NEI Photos, Images, and Videos Non-copyrighted photos, images and videos available through the National Eye Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health |
| Videos of Surgical Procedures: Medline Plus From Medline Plus, a service of the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this webpage "provides links to pre-recorded webcasts of surgical procedures. These are actual operations performed at medical centers in the United States since January 2004." Surgical Procedure video categories include Digestive System; Bones, Joints, and Muscles; Cancers; Heart and Circulation; Brain and Nervous System; and more. RealPlayer is required for viewing videos, and the site provides a link to a free download. |
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Subscription Resources |
| images.MD images.MD has over 45,000 medical images from more than 80 collections and 2,000 contributors. As a member of the Washington University School of Medicine, you have free access to full-sized, high quality images in step with the latest developments in medicine. By filling out a simple registration form, you can also start your own image library, create PowerPoint presentations of images in your library, and order customized CD-ROMs of your favorite slides. |
| Journals@Ovid Full Text Login and password to Ovid Online required. The Caption Text (CT) field includes the descriptive text for tables, figures, and other graphics as they appear in the journal in which the document was published (e.g. biopsy needle.ct). |
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