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Virtual Autopsy Touchscreen Table (videos)

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by Aaron Saenz on October 8th, 2009
The Virtual Autopsy Table allows users to examine a 3D virtual cadaver using a touchscreen interface.

The Virtual Autopsy Table allows users to examine a 3D virtual cadaver using a touchscreen interface.

For those of you who miss playing Operation and want to take the game to the next level, may I present the Virtual Autopsy Table. Built more like a steamer trunk, the VAT allows you to use a multi-touch screen to explore a 3D virtual human body layer by layer. Developed in Sweden by the Noorkoping Visualization Center and the Center for Medical Image Sciences and Visualization, the body on display was painstakingly created using the latest in high resolution MRI scans. There’s nowhere in the body you can’t examine with a few flips of your hand across the screen. It’s just like a real autopsy, only without all the goo. Check out the cool demonstration video after the break.

The virtual exploration of the body is a great educational tool for students and professionals. We’ve seen a similar 3D experience with Visible Body’s online model. One day, the VAT could be an integral part of medical school, or even see use in museums across the world. The multi-touch screen is an intuitive way to access the information contained in the VAT, demonstrating how touchscreen technology is at the forefront of the new human-machine interface paradigm.
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Visible Body Takes You on an Incredible Voyage

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by Aaron Saenz on April 15th, 2009

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Visible Body from Argosy, is a new, gorgeously rendered, 3D interactive model of the human body.

Explore Your Body

It used to be that any capable surgeon also had to be a capable grave robber. How else were you going to get those fresh cadavers to work on? Visible Body has taken the fresh corpse on the slab and brought it into the 21st century. Argosy Publishing’s latest brain child, Visible Body is a fully interactive 3D color display of the human body available free online. Its painstakingly rendered graphics detail 1700 anatomical structures, including all of the major systems of the body. Yet it is simple enough to allow even a beginning user to explore the body easily.

“The Visible Body is the result of years of development and collaboration between our specially trained team of biomedical visualization experts and software engineers. ” – Visible Body FAQ

Visible Body is like architectural software for the human form. Anyone familiar with AutoCAD will quickly see the similarities. Users can add or remove layers, rotate and zoom in three dimensions, and change transparency to help them navigate. The ease of movement makes Visible Body feel like a practical research tool. The control panels are mostly intuitive, and the search bar is simple but effective.

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