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With intuitive design and anatomical accuracy in its software, an Irish firm has built a library and about 18,000 high-resolution images of the body, which were used to create 6,500 interactive body structures in 3D.
Since Leonardo daVinci's first detailed anatomical illustrations, the medical field has been foundationally built on a comprehensive and detailed understanding of what is under our skins. Knowledge of our bodies has been transferred from first hand examinations of cadavers, along with classical textbooks
filled with drawings.Today, an Apple Design Award Winning app, Complete Anatomy Lab from Irish-based 3D4Medical seamlessly blends intuitive design with anatomical accuracy in its software. The company built a library and, over a period of about two years, they made about 18,000 high-resolution images of the body, which were used to create 6,500 interactive body structures in 3D.
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“If you look at traditional photography, a heart, it’s always covered in gore because you can’t get a real heart on its own with traditional photography,” founder and chief executive John Moore says. “But we can do it in 3D, we can get realistic results, we can stylise it without the gore.”Initially, 3D4Medical had a lot of resistance from universities which were somewhat attached to their old textbooks. The company pitched Essential Anatomy, the forerunner for Complete Anatomy, as an add-on to the books and got students hooked.
The premium app remains popular on the App Store and is in use in universities and hospitals around the world. The company developeded its own engine from the ground up so that it could do things no one else could currently do: interact with models, cut into them and simulate diseased states.
The updated software also has a lecture builder on it that allows lecturers to create their own content and share it with students, who are signed up on a subscription basis. There are 100 pilot projects in US universities already, and Moore is confident they will sign up even more.
"This is disruptive technology. For the very first time, they’re embracing this. They’re getting rid of the text books."
“This is disruptive technology," states Moore. "For the very first time, they’re embracing this. They’re getting rid of the text books. It doesn’t make sense to have text books when you can do it all on this. That’s really running by itself.”The latest work from the company, called Project Esper, features an augmented reality experience, featuring immersive anatomical learning, by blending 3D anatomical models and technology with mixed reality. See the video below.
The company sees applications for the technology in training and potentially assisted surgery, where a surgeon could carry out a dry run of a procedure on a cadaver that could be replicated by a robot later on.
It could also allow less experienced people to successfully carry out operations with the aid of “virtual” guide, which could benefit developing countries.
“We’re a good bit away from this yet,” Moore says.
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