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Hooked to Microscope Shreveport Times September 19, 1974
Med School Classroom Has Closeup TV
By Elaine Kins;
Of The Times Staff
A closed circuit color
television and recording
system is being used for
classroom teaching at
Louisiana State University
Medical School in Shreveport
forthefirsttimethisfall.
The custom designed and
built unit consists of a color
television camera which is
hooked to a microscope and
projects the slide magnified
by the microscope onto three
color monitors located around
the classroom.
The medical school here is
believed to be the first in the
nation to use such equipment
for teaching purposes, ac-cording
to Jim Pieper,
television producer and direc-tor
for the medical school. He
constructed the unit from com-ponent
parts.
Eventually the components
will be used for other areas of
teaching, but not until the
demand has diminished for
the equipment somewhat,
Pieper said.
"It was booked up through
Thanksgiving," Pieper said,
"from the first day I turned it
on." The unit was first used
at the medical school here
just over a week ago.
Initial reception by profes-sors
using the equipment as a
teaching aid has been good,
Pieper said. And other profes-sors
are now interested in
using the equipment, he
added.
Currently the unit us being
used in the histology
laboratory, he said. Each of
the 45 students have a
microscope with the same
specimen on a slide that is
being shown on the closed cir-cuit
screens.
The intersection of a
horizontal and vertical line on
the monitor attached to the
microscope and color camera
can be used by the professor
to point out areas on the
specimen slide that students
are to look at under their own
microscopes, he explained
Use of the equipment is
rily for a teaching aid and
ot to replace any area of in-ruction,
Pieper said.
The equipment can be used
record lectures and other
terials, and is part of a
vision studio planned in
(Times Photo by Ken Aclin:
Jim Pieper adjusts the electronic equipment
. . .used to project microscope images to TV screen
the medical school now under
construction.
Currently the television
equipment is located at the
Veterans Administration
Hospital, where some medical
school offices are located.
Before the closed circuit
unit was constructed and
operative microscopic projec-tions
were done in a
darkroom, he said.
Cost of the system was un-der
$15,000, he noted, adding
that the color camera cost
$12,000 and the microscope
cost about $2,000.
Object Description
| Title | Med School Classroom Has Closeup TV |
| Creator |
King, Elaine T. Aclin, Ken |
| Subject |
Louisiana State University School of Medicine (Shreveport, La.) Education, Medical Microscopes Televisions |
| Notes | Photo of Jim Pieper using electronic equipment |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1974-09-19 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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