Virtual Autopsy Table

The Virtual Autopsy Table is a unique new medical visualization tool that allows people to explore the inside of a human body. With its intuitive gesture based interface, the Virtual Autopsy Table totally changes the way users interact with volumetric medical data. Multiple users can interact collaboratively and simultaneously, working with large and complex data to gain deeper understanding and insight into the functions and processes inside the body.

The Virtual Autopsy is already utilized successfully to complement conventional autopsies. It dispenses with the need for invasive surgical procedures allowing medical experts to see things that would be difficult to discover with traditional methods. The technique is also used in other areas of traditional health care such as pre-surgery planning, other types of examination, education etc.

The table can also, for educational purposes, be used in education environments and in public institutions such as museums, Science and Technology centers.

The table is developed by the Interactive Institute in collaboration with Norrköping Visualization Center and Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) in Linköping, Sweden.

Virtual Autopsy Table project is initiated and funded by C-Site, a Swedish cross-boundary visualization arena in Norrköping, The KK-foundation, Vinnova, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Invest In Sweden Agency, The Vårdal Foundation and the Swedish Research Council.

Commercial requests

The Virtual Autopsy Table is now commercially available for the medical sector trough the medical technology company, Sectra AB.Sectra develops and sells IT-systems and products for radiology, mammography and orthopaedic departments. More than 1,100 hospitals worldwide use the system daily, together performing over 52 million radiology examinations annually. This makes Sectra one of the world leading companies within systems for handling digital radiology images (PACS).

For more information please visit www.sectra.com/table

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More information

For more information about the Virtual Autopsy Table please visit:
Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization - Linköping
Norrköping Visualization Center
VITA - Linköping University

In Media:

This Virtual Autopsy Table project has since it went public gained a lot of attention on the internet, the demo video got almost 40 000 views in just three days. The project has been featured by a large number of technology weblogs and magazines. Maybe Engadget, an American international technology weblog, summarizes the project best "we can all probably agree this is one of the best uses for a multitouch table surface ever".

Selected articles:
"A Cut From CSI" - The Economist
Virtual Autopsies Offer Clues Without the Knife - Discovery News
"Obducera direkt på pekskärmen" - Ny Teknik (Sweden largest technology magazine) 
"Nätklippet fick världen att börja köa" - Ny Teknik (Sweden largest technology magazine)
“Virtual Autopsy Table brings multitouch to the morgue” – Engadget
“Virtual autopsy: Finally a use for the Surface PC” – ZDNet
“Virtual Autopsy on a Multi-Touch Table” – Pathtalk
“The Virtual Autopsy Table” – VizWorld
“Virtual Autopsy On a Multi-Touch Table Surface” - Slashdot

Credits:

The project is based on research results from CMIV, VITA at Linköping University, Sweden and Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine.

Installation concept: Interactive Institute
Project leader: Thomas Rydell - Interactive Institute
Volume rendering: Dr. Patric Ljung, Prof. Anders Ynnerman, Prof. Anders Persson and Willem Frishert – CMIV/VITA Linköping University
Scanning, data and medical expertise:  Prof. Anders Person – CMIV
User interface Design: David Karlsson - Interactive Institute and Willem Frishert - VITA