Hovering over any anatomical structure outlines it with a label revealing its identity, while clicking on it brings up detailed notes. The image can also be rotated through 360° to be viewed from different angles. Here, the computerised anatomical images can be ‘dissected’ layer by layer, with skin, fascia, vessels, nerves, lymphatics, muscles, bones and ligaments appearing or disappearing as the layers are added or removed. However, the software comes into its own in the regional interactive sections. The systemic anatomy package gives a brief overview of most of the body systems and includes short quizzes for self-testing, although occasionally the item being highlighted for identification is hard to find, even when made to flash. Helpful animated videos demonstrate the basics, and experimentation with the buttons on the screen quickly allows mastery of the rest.
In all of these, the software is easy to use and quite intuitive.
The products to which access was given for this review included several different components of the material available on: interactive systemic anatomy, interactive regional anatomy, surgical and functional anatomy and the 3D real-time body. The software is aimed at both professionals (in many clinical fields and anatomy education) and students, with the company claiming that over 500,000 students use it in the UK alone. Primal Pictures seem to be continually broadening their products, and, in addition to the regional or systemic anatomical material available, offer many different packages for specialist markets such as dentistry, sports therapy, otolaryngology or even acupuncture. Much of the supporting material can be saved or printed and many of the other features can be exported for use in presentations. Not only computerised images, but also MRI scans, slides of cadaveric dissections, photographs of pathological specimens or patients, photographs taken during surgery, movies, and a host of diagrammatic and written information is also available. The resulting product is a comprehensive piece of software that can encompass an enormous range of features – depending on the amount you are prepared to pay. There are several anatomical computer programmes or applications on the market, but according to its website, the company Primal Pictures was set up with the express purpose of creating an accurate and detailed three-dimensional anatomical model of the human body, based on medical data from scans that were subsequently interpreted by anatomists or clinicians and then converted into computer images and animations. For product details see Modern computer graphic technology has led to an increasing demand for e-learning resources, especially in anatomy, a visual subject where true three-dimensional learning in the form of dissection has been replaced in many universities.
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