Michael Teixido, M.D.

Assistant Professor Otolaryngology
Thomas Jefferson University
Christiana Care Health Services

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The Animations on The Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome and Common Vestibular Diagnoses pages use Adobe Flash. Click here to download the software from Adobe.

Downloadable Teaching Movies

• Inner Ear Anatomy
• Benign Positional Paroxysmal Vertigo (BPPV)
• Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome
• Common Vestibular Diagnoses
• Temporal Bone Anatomy
• Skull Base Anatomy

These teaching materials have been created by Michael Teixido, M.D. to support the efforts of otolaryngology educators in their goals of teaching students, residents, professional colleagues, and patients. They were created using Amira™ 3.1 and 4.1 visualization software and converted to downloadable .avi movies in standard 2D and red/cyan 3D stereo.  These movie formats are supported by most standard movie players (Windows Media Player™, Quicktime™). The movies can be seen on any computer and incorporated into presentations to groups of students using standard projection equipment.

To see the stereo versions each viewer will need red/cyan glasses. These are inexpensive glasses with one red and one cyan lens that can be easily obtained through many online vendors (search 3D red/cyan glasses).

The Superior Canal Dehiscence, Menieres Disease, and Vestibular Neuronitis Movies are Flash™ animations.  Although a Flash™ player is included in some browsers, download of the Adobe Flash Player® player may be required to play the movies.  Incorporation of Flash™ animations into PowerPoint may be difficult. For assistance consult “Play a Macromedia Flash Animation in PowerPoint: “http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/assistance/HA010348071033.aspx .

When using these materials please acknowledge this site by including the web address (url) of this page: www.dbi.udel.edu/MichaelTeixidoMD/DownloadableTeachingMovies.html

These materials are the result of collaborative efforts of many individuals.

These include:

• The creators of the EPL Viewer and Downloadable Models of the Human Temporal Bone, Round Window and Related Cochlear Anatomy and the “Visible Ear”.  This includes individuals at The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary(Haobing Wang, Saumil Merchant MD), The Temporal Bone Foundation(Clarinda Northrop) and Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark(Mads Sorensen MD).  These valuable models can be downloaded at https://research.meei.harvard.edu/Otopathology/3dmodels//3Dviewer.html.
• Invaluable assistance has been provided at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute by Karl V. Steiner, Ph.D., Patrick Coller, B.A., Robert Forstrom, Douglas O’Neal, Ph.D. and Praveen Thiagarajan, M.S and at Christiana Care through Brian Little, M.D. and Brian Kung, M.D.
• Special thanks to Haobing Wang for her generous and valuable technical assistance.

This project was supported by NIH Grant Number 2 P20 RR016472-06 under the INBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Last Updated: November 8, 2006