Mission Statement

With the rapid pace of CBCT development, and with new manufacturers and models coming on the market every year, it is clear that this technology is assuming an increasingly important role in dental diagnosis. CBCT provides volumetric scans of the patient’s head that can be visualized in a variety of ways, both in 2D and 3D. The volumetric data set obtained from CBCT can be utilized in diagnosis and treatment planning in several disciplines in dentistry such as prosthetic, endodontic, orthodontic, implants, and maxillofacial surgery.
Developed and maintained by Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologists, MARCILAN is a crucial tool for your daily training and work with cone beam CT. Several modules were developed that covers many important aspects of CBCT with an assessment module at the end to evaluate and give you a feedback of your learning progress. We hope you will enjoy your time here and benefit from this site.


About

MARCILAN started as a master thesis project in medical imaging (option oral imaging) in 2005. There was no similar project on the market at that time and that continues to be the case today. MARCILAN offers a complete educational solution to address the needs of CBCT education in dental practice and institutions.

We didn’t want to create another outdated website that offers only text and images to its users. This is in our opinion, no different from reading a book  in the first place. We opted to follow the best practices and focused on the use of multimedia such as: animationd and videos. Couple that with interactivity from javascripts and Flash and you have much better educational experience. Web 2.0 standards were the foundation when we planned our design. There has been much development going on in the background. We keep improving the site and keep adding new functionality, enhancement, and new material as we see fit.


In Education

MARCILAN is currently used as part of dental students curriculum at:

Presentations

  1. June 28, 2009, Bassam Hassan, 17th International Congress of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. CBCT 3D imaging and navigation.
  2. June 2, 2009, Wisam Al-Rawi, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. MARCILAN, a newly developed highly interactive web-based solution for Cone Beam CT anatomy and pathology education.
  3. March 26, 2009, Wisam Al-Rawi, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA. MARCILAN, a newly developed highly interactive web-based solution for Cone Beam CT anatomy and pathology education.
  4. March 3, 2009. Wisam Al-Rawi, UniversityResearch Day, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Development of a web-based instructional module for interpretation of craniofacial Cone Beam CT pathology.
  5. February 18, 2009. Wisam Al-Rawi, Dental Research in Review Day, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Development of a web-based instructional module for interpretation of craniofacial Cone Beam CT pathology.
  6. November 1, 2008, Wisam Al-Rawi, 59th American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Development of a web-based instructional module for interpretation of craniofacial Cone Beam CT pathology.
  7. June 2, 2006,  Wisam Al-Rawi, 10th European Congress of Dento-Maxillo-Facial Radiology, Leuven, Belgium. Effectiveness evaluation of web based instruction in oral radiology education
  8. June 2, 2006, Bassam Hassan, 10th European Congress of Dento-Maxillo-Facial Radiology, Leuven, Belgium. Developing a web-based instruction module for interpretation of craniofacial Cone Beam CT anatomy.

Scientific Papers

  1. Al-Rawi W, Jacobs R, Hassan B, Sanderink G, Scarfe W. Evaluation of web-based instruction for anatomical interpretation in maxillofacial cone beam computed tomography. Dentomaxillofac Radiol. 2007 Dec 1;36(8):459-464.
  2. Hassan B, Jacobs R, Scarfe W, Al-Rawi W. A web-based instruction module for interpretation of craniofacial cone beam CT anatomy. Dentomaxillofac Radiol. 2007 Sep 1;36(6):348-355.


We need your help!

Please, send any comments, bug reports and ideas to improve Marcilan !
We would like to know if you want more features? if we should continue to develop this website?

Thank you for your interest in Marcilan!


Developed and maintained by Wisam Al-Rawi and Bassam Hassan




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