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Cinematic Anatomy
Your virtual learning experience in anatomy education
Overview
Source: CR of dataset from The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/k9/tcia.2018.6emub5l2
Cinematic Anatomy is an immersive application designed to improve teaching anatomy at medical universities, schools and hospitals while enhancing scientific and interdisciplinary interaction between medical stakeholders and helping to increase patient communication.
Based on the patented Cinematic Rendering algorithm CT and MR DICOM data are visualized in a three-dimensionally photorealistic view enabling to easily understand the spatial characteristics of anatomical structures and to teach the diversity and complexity of human anatomy.
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Features
Cinematic Anatomy improves anatomy education with various features

Use cases
Cinematic Anatomy helps to address your needs

Today´s Challenges in anatomy education:
- Limited options for teaching anatomical structures due traditional teacher-centered lecture format and standardized models and plane illustrations
- Difficult representation of spatial complexity due to 2D visualization
- Lack of real patient cases
Cinematic Anatomy helps students to
- Better and faster understand anatomical structures and spatial characteristics through photorealistic 3D visualization
- Combine knowledge from 2D anatomy books with 3D visualization
- Understand the diverse and complex individual anatomy, anatomical variations, pathology, and age-related degeneration
- Reduce dependency on body donations while decreasing the cost of cadaver courses, models and illustrative materials
- Enhance your institution's reputation and its attractiveness to students

Today´s Challenges for Physicians & Scientists:
- Limited option for sufficient interdisciplinary exchange across departmental boundaries
- Need for improved visualization of complex anatomical problems and operations during patient information
- Lack of innovative technology for academic use at conferences
- Sustain patient loyalty while increasing patient satisfaction with improved visualization of complex anatomical problems and operations during patient information by using DICOM data files from CT and MRI scans for better understanding
- Enhance workforce productivity while reducing time with improved interdisciplinary communication among physicians and patients.
- Provide accurate spatial visualization of research results and ease of sharing contents and images with peers
- Enhance your reputation as cutting-edge institution

Today´s Challenges for Science Centers:
- Need to target a new generation of audiences.
- Lack of economical support that lead to more economic ownership and innovation
- Increase of audience and making themselves 'more relevant' for the community
- Improve visual presentation with a flexible setup for new subject areas.
- Open up new content fields with the possibility to explain medical content in an easy way and attract your institutions for a new audience
- Enhance your institution´s reputation and differentiate from competitors
Customer voices
Explore what our customers think about Cinematic Anatomy
„The quality of the visualization of structures and tissues with Cinematic Rendering is amazing. It allows for lively lectures and intensifies the understanding of anatomical structures and spatial characteristics through photo-realistic visualization. I am totally convinced that this application must and will find its way into the anatomy education in the near future.“1

Prof. Dr. Michael Scholz, Anatomical Institute Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen
„The advantage of virtual dissection with Cinematic Anatomy – apart from the cost – is that it’s reversible. And because the photorealistic visualizations are from real patient cases, you still feel a high emotional engagement of the students.“1

- Read the study: Leveraging medical imaging for medical education - A cinematic rendering-featured lecture
- Virtual Anatomy: The Dissecting Theatre of the Future - Implementation of Cinematic Rendering in a Large 8 K High-Resolution Projection Environment
- A Crossover Study Comparing a Novel 3D Reconstruction Technique to Conventional CT
- Three-dimensional perception of cinematic rendering versus conventional volume rendering using CT and CBCT data of the facial skeleton
- Photorealistic Depiction of the Intracranial Venous System. Radiology 2022; 304:295–296
Events
Cinematic Anatomy Expert Talk series
Would you like to discover more about the new application from Siemens Healthineers using MR and CT cinematic rendering to help you teach anatomy. Join us for one of the next Expert Talk sessions or watch the recording.
Recording from 2022 May 19th
Past sessions:
2022 May 19th, 4.00-5.00 pm (CET) - Language: English
2022 February 22th, 10.00-11.00 am (CET) - Language: German
Scenarios for the implementation of Cinematic Anatomy in lectures. From enriching standard anatomy lectures to dedicated “virtual dissection” workshops or cinematic lectures. Learn from the experience of Professor Michael Scholz, FAU Erlangen and Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner, JKU Linz. Please watch the recording from May 19th.

Join our next Cinematic Anatomy Expert Talk on November 4th at 4.00 pm (CET)
Three clinical surgeons will present their experience of the Siemens Healthineers Cinematic Anatomy solution and answer your questions. See how the photorealistic 3D visualizations of real patient data enable new ways of anatomical teaching and surgical training.
Please register with the contact form below.

Available dates:
Q&A sessions for new / trial license user
- Mondays 3.30 – 4.30 pm (CET)
- Thursdays 8.00 – 9.00 am (CET)
Please register with the contact form below.
If you want to watch the recording from the last Expert Talk, please click on the slider.
Recording from 2022 May 19th
Past sessions:
2022 May 19th, 4.00-5.00 pm (CET) - Language: English
2022 February 22th, 10.00-11.00 am (CET) - Language: German
Scenarios for the implementation of Cinematic Anatomy in lectures. From enriching standard anatomy lectures to dedicated “virtual dissection” workshops or cinematic lectures. Learn from the experience of Professor Michael Scholz, FAU Erlangen and Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner, JKU Linz. Please watch the recording from May 19th.

Join our next Cinematic Anatomy Expert Talk on November 4th at 4.00 pm (CET)
Three clinical surgeons will present their experience of the Siemens Healthineers Cinematic Anatomy solution and answer your questions. See how the photorealistic 3D visualizations of real patient data enable new ways of anatomical teaching and surgical training.
Please register with the contact form below.

Available dates:
Q&A sessions for new / trial license user
- Mondays 3.30 – 4.30 pm (CET)
- Thursdays 8.00 – 9.00 am (CET)
Please register with the contact form below.
If you want to watch the recording from the last Expert Talk, please click on the slider.
Recording from 2022 May 19th
Past sessions:
2022 May 19th, 4.00-5.00 pm (CET) - Language: English
2022 February 22th, 10.00-11.00 am (CET) - Language: German
Scenarios for the implementation of Cinematic Anatomy in lectures. From enriching standard anatomy lectures to dedicated “virtual dissection” workshops or cinematic lectures. Learn from the experience of Professor Michael Scholz, FAU Erlangen and Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner, JKU Linz. Please watch the recording from May 19th.

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The products/features and/or service offerings (here mentioned) are not commercially available in all countries and/or for all modalities. If the services are not marketed in countries due to regulatory or other reasons, the service offering cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers organization for further details. Not for clinical use. For training purposes only.
The statements by Siemens Healthineers’ customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer’s unique setting. Since there is no “typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.