With a touch of her pen, Katelyn Gehlhausen moved, turned and inverted a striking three-dimensional image of a human skull Tuesday evening in a Fort Dodge Senior High School classroom.
That was all done on a tabletop that is essentially a large computer screen. And revealing the details of a skull is a mere fraction of the capabilities of the new learning tool called an anatomage table.
The anatomage table is the most up-to-date device for teaching anatomy, health care classes and even some other kinds of sciences. It shows layer upon layer of the human body, uncovering muscles, blood vessels, internal organs and bones. Students can even use it to do virtual autopsies to determine causes of death.