Activ Surgical ActivSight vs Anatomage Table

An anatomy course and an operating-room imaging purchase draw on different budgets, so these two rarely meet. ActivSight holds two FDA 510(k) clearances, K203550 in April 2021 and K231344 in August 2023, for the ActivSight Intraoperative Imaging System. It shows blood flow and tissue perfusion without dye using laser speckle contrast imaging. Surgeons and robotic-platform makers buy it at an unpublished price, and the vendor cites 50-plus publications. The Anatomage Table is an 84-inch touchscreen of what the vendor calls digitized cadavers, bought by an anatomy course director or a simulation center for virtual dissection. Its FDA status is not stated. Prices are third-party and one-time hardware: a University of North Florida quote of $68,000, about $87,040 with a four-year warranty and shipping, and a BMC Medical Education review range of roughly $85,000 to $100,000. A school hoping to retire its cadaver lab is the wrong buy for the Table, since in that review only 2.4% to 30.2% of students preferred the virtual table alone.