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radioACTIVE inc. has brought an ultimate solution to CT / MRI cross-sectional anatomy for iOS users. While touch tablets made things convenient and portable, learning anatomy is not an exception. You can flick on image or point a term in Index to search anatomy. As you scroll pictures, you will construct a 3D image in your mind and gain an excellent understanding of the anatomy.

Since 2006, radioACTIVE inc. has sold over 17,000 units of the full Windows version “CT and MRI Interactive Atlas of Cross-Sectional Anatomy” in Japan. Needless to say, it has become one of the must-haves for various medical personnel. A compact iOS app, the Brain MRI Sectional Walker, was released on Nov 24, followed by the Chest CT and Abdomen CT apps released on Dec 19 in 2013.

Main features are 1) A terminology is presented by maneuvering a finger cursor over an image, 2) Highlight an anatomy in a picture by clicking a term from index page, 3) Shifting a button to scroll images and pinching or pushing a button to zoom in and out. Price $18.99 each version.

Check out details here http://www.radioactive.jp/products/ctmriipne/index.html

Additional convenient feature is sub-buttons, which are to show brain territories and vascular territories on the image in the Brain MRI app. It is useful to determine a responsible territory on stroke, for example. Lung segments, lung vessels and bronchus buttons are available in Chest CT app as well as liver segments and vessels buttons in Abdomen CT app.

Inside story of a developer; “As a medical student, it was a headache to find an anatomy in a gigantic anatomy textbook. This tool helps you search an anatomy instantly anywhere you go. In addition, these convenient interface and fast performance improve the effect of your learning process.”

Board certified Radiology specialists are responsible for all aspects of development. The main service of radioACTIVE inc. is to offer radiology consulting and radiological diagnoses to in-town and remote clinics as well as to develop a software tool of radiology.

[App facts]

-Brain MRI app
22 axial-view T1-weighted images
22 axial-view T2-weighted images
150 terminologies
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-Abdomen CT app
46 images and 49 terms in Upper abdomen
51 images and 69 terms in Male pelvis
21 images and 53 terms in Female pelvis
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-Chest CT app
31 images and 15 terms in Lung window
31 images and 66 terms in Mediastinum
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