Virtual bronchoscopy
Take the scope down the trachea and see the airway the way a bronchoscopist does: a dark hole, a carina, and holes beyond it that you must name from where you stand. Steer into any lobe and down to all eighteen segments — then try to find one without labels.
Scope view
Preparing the airway…
↑ ↓ or scroll: advance and withdraw · ← →: pick an orifice · Enter: go in
Picture orientation
The picture is what the scope sees, looking down the airway from the mouth, with the cartilage rings (anterior) at 12 o'clock and the membranous wall (posterior) at 6. Looking down a body from its head puts the patient's right on your right — as when you look down at your own feet — the reverse of a chest X-ray, so the right main bronchus opens on the right of the picture.
The letters on the rim follow the scope as it turns: A anterior, P posterior, R and L the patient's right and left, S and I superior (toward the head) and inferior. An axis shows only while it lies across the picture; one running along the view fades out.
Anatomy: BodyParts3D, © DBCLS, CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan — the tracheobronchial tree, its lumen and centreline built for this trainer. Segment names after Boyden; the lighting, the mucosa and the cartilage rings are drawn, not photographed.