An atlas is made up of sets of images that are structurally annotated. This means that each images has structure boundry outlines on top of it, that each have a different meaning. An atlas may also contain QuickTime movies that can be linked to from the structures. In general, we say that an atlas is made up of frames . A frame is contained within a page in your web browser.
Every frame has an image associated with it, as well as the structural annotations.
Each frame also has a certain number of interface buttons underneath the image. These buttons provide a number of different services, described in later sections of this manual. There are two basic kinds of frames, content frames and control frames . A content frame is one with an image of interest where structures of interest are named. To use the Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlas , you must have a graphical World-Wide Web browser, and a connection to the Internet.