Features: advanced virtual learning system with 3D display of human anatomy using real patient images from CT, MRI and other clinical sources.
Technology: Sectra PACS table, an interactive platform for detailed virtual dissections, FDA and CE certified.
The Sectra Anatomy Table is a unique interactive product that allows specialists to examine detailed virtual representations of real bodies. Visualization is achieved by 3D images of real patients, obtained by PACS from CT, MRI, as well as clinical images or video clips from any other source. It also contains tools for configuring and highlighting anatomical areas of interest.
The table is built on Sectra's PACS platform, an image management system well-established in the global radiology market, and is the result of the successful combination of applied research with medical-grade technology and advanced computer science.
The development processes are ISO-certified and approved by several inter-national control bodies: FDA, CE (software), EN60950 ( overall).
Equipment:
The software platform contains PACS, high definition histological image library, advanced volume visualization technique, virtual anatomy atlas and virtual dissection module on real cadaver, 3D orthopaedic surgery planning module, as well as a system for connection to the information portal with a growing number of clinical cases.
The hardware platform includes touch screen monitor, height and tilt adjustable screen stand with 4 lockable wheels.
- PACS connectivity
The Sectra anatomy table is fully compatible with DICOM systems, which means that images, cases and information can be transmitted between the table and any PACS server (hospital, university, etc.) but can also be retrieved from any electronic media via media ports. Thus, specialists and students can have access to cases from all over the world from the screening stage to the end of treatment (history, correlation between histologic images and CT and/or MRI data, photographs, movies, clinical analysis in pdf format, etc.) or to their own cases.
- Pathologic anatomy and histology
The pathologic anatomy module contains multiple images of real cases. The images have a very good resolution, showing details at the cell nuclei level.
- Clinical cases and advanced volume visualization technique
Designed for learning in residency programs and simulation centers, with software that allows anatomical study on real clinical cases. 3D images created based on CT or MRI data can be rotated, zoomed, dissected in user-chosen plans, structures and organs can be removed, etc. Sectra anatomy table connects via the internet to the information portal, allowing real-time access to more than 160 clinical cases with different pathologies and anatomical variations, prepared for specialized curricula.
In multiplanar view mode, the user can adjust the position of the marker in all three radiological planes, making it very easy to recognize structures of interest in the three-dimensional volume. Structures can be visualized in the whole body, in the body sectioned according to user-selected plans, as well as in slices and spheres with definable dimensions.
On the clinical cases present in the portal and in the internal memory of the Sectra anatomy table (including user's own cases), courses can be organized with annotations, with indices and landmarks, with measurements, with written material, from which students and resident and specialist doctors can learn and give interactive tests.
- Virtual anatomy atlas
The virtual anatomy atlas integrated in the Sectra anatomy table allows interactive visualization of more than 4600 anatomical structures with names in English and Latin, animations of all segments of the osteo-articular system and related musculature, common pathologies, as well as quizzes to check your knowledge.
- Virtual dissection mode on real cadaver (VH Dissector)
This module is a representation of a real cadaver, according to the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. The cadaver was cut using a microtom, then each slice was photographed and the resulting images were superimposed to virtually recompose the human body. Each anatomical structure is named in Latin and can be removed with the virtual scalpel.
The module consists of a virtual dissection guide, multiplanar views, high-resolution bone system, anatomy lectures, radiologic image library and self-assessment tools for practical skills.
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