The Campaign for St. Francis Prep: The Next 150
New York-Presbyterian, Queens Awards Generous Grant to St. Francis Prep for a “Virtual Anatomy Table” Building on the foundation of St. Francis Prep’s outstanding curriculum, and thanks to a $100,000 grant from New York Presbyterian-Queens, our award-winning Science Department will now be equipped with the Anatomage Table — the world’s first virtual dissection table that provides a hands-on visualization tool for students in anatomy and biology courses. Students will be able to see the interior of the human body and perform “operations” on over 1,000 virtual cadavers. This life-size 3-D interactive table is today’s most technologically advanced digital visualization system for anatomy education. It provides the most realistic view of human anatomy. It is both a virtual library of human and animal cadavers, as well as a clinical diagnostic tool by visualization of any Medical CT, CBCT or MRI scan. All of the images provided with the table are from actual human bodies, not 3-D simulations or computer-generated models. And, what makes this even more compelling is the fact that there are only a few hundred tables in use in the thousands of colleges and high schools in the U.S. and around the world!
Individual structures are reconstructed in accurate 3-D, resulting in an unprecedented level of accurate anatomy, dissectible in 3-D. The Anatomage Table allows for exploration and learning of human anatomy beyond what any cadaver could offer.
The Anatomage Table is the most technologically advanced 3-D anatomy visualization system for anatomy and physiology education and it will be used by students at St. Francis Prep. It is being adopted by many of the world’s leading medical schools and institutions because of innovative approach to anatomy presentation. Users can visualize anatomy exactly as they would on a cadaver.
6 Grad News • Summer/Fall 2019
