Anatomage Table

What is the Anatomage Table?

Anatomage describes it as "the most advanced real-human-based 3D anatomy and medical education system", built around "digitized human cadavers" (anatomage.com/table). Physically, it is an 84-inch multi-touch screen laid flat like a dissection table.

The vendor lists four models: Table Classic (86 x 34.9 x 27.8 in, 330 lb), Table Convertible (tilts to vertical, 380 lb), Table Clinical (compact, built around DICOM scan viewing) and Table Vet. The vendor also has a Table 12 software page with the newer simulations listed below.

The vendor's own page leads with education. Surgical planning and patient communication appear as secondary uses of DICOM rendering.

What can you actually do on it?

Anatomage Bodies are built from frozen cadaver slices of donated bodies, with male, female, geriatric and pregnant specimens. The vendor states that the vascular system is traced, structures are "visualized up to 0.5 mm detail", and thousands of structures are annotated.

Beyond static anatomy, the vendor lists physiology simulations: cardiac motion, kinesiology, ocular motion, the dental arch, and pregnancy and delivery. Table 12 adds ear physiology, a kinematic body, glucose homeostasis and renal physiology.

The clinical library holds hundreds of real-patient cases, "1,100+" digital histology scans, "77" prosected scans and "1,031" case-specific presets, all vendor figures from anatomage.com/table12.

Procedure simulation covers volumetric dissection, ultrasound, craniotomy, endoscopic view and catheterization. Table 12 adds aesthetic injections. Teachers get quizzes and lecture tools for recording, annotating and projecting.

The Table imports and renders DICOM scans, so a program can load a real patient study. The vendor page does not state EHR integration.

Is there any AI in it?

The vendor descriptions mention no machine learning features. The product is a curated, scanned and segmented library with an interactive viewer, a different thing from scribes, coders and chatbots.

A 2026 Annals of Anatomy paper on artificial intelligence in animal anatomy is linked to the product. It is not about Anatomage.

Does it have FDA clearance, HIPAA or SOC 2?

FDA: no clearance is listed for the Table. Anatomage also sells a dental software product, InVivoDental. Any 510(k) would belong to that, and none is verified. HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST and BAA are not stated. For education hardware that mostly displays donor-derived anatomy, that is unsurprising. It matters only if a program intends to load identifiable patient scans.

Who is behind it?

Anatomage Inc. is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Company profiles list San Jose, while a University of North Florida procurement quote lists 3350 Thomas Rd, Santa Clara. Aggregator profiles give a 2004 founding date. One source names Jack Choi as founder and CEO. Other founders are not confirmed.

Funding figures conflict. PitchBook lists a 2006 early-stage round with no amount and a $1.29M PPP loan in 2020. Datanyze says $1M, and Tracxn shows none. An aggregator estimate puts revenue near $26.1M with about 136 employees. None of this is audited. No ownership change is listed.

What does it cost?

The vendor publishes no price and asks buyers to schedule a demo. A University of North Florida quote shows $68,000 for a horizontal-only table, or about $87,040 with a four-year extended warranty and shipping. A BMC Medical Education review puts the range at roughly $85,000 to $100,000. It is a one-time hardware purchase, and warranty and software upgrade terms vary by quote.

What does the research say?

Five papers are linked to the tool. Four have the Table in the title:

• Frontiers in Medicine (2025): a questionnaire survey on educational strategies for physical and occupational therapy students.
• Advances in Physiology Education (2024): peripheral nerve block education, with the Table as a learning adjunct.
• Health Science Reports (2024): a comparative study of its effect on medical students' case report writing.
• Cureus (2023): "The Anatomage Table: A Promising Alternative in Anatomy Education".

The broader evidence is a 2025 BMC Medical Education systematic review of 22 studies on virtual dissection tables (Telecan et al.). In that review, 86% of included studies showed improved performance, with increases of 8% to 31%. Many compared the table against textbooks or lectures rather than cadavers. The review also notes that the evidence is mostly perception-based, drawn from small single-institution samples with short-term outcomes, and that no study compared platforms head to head.

The vendor claims a University of Heidelberg study "improves test scores by an impressive 27%". The study design is not published.

What are the drawbacks?

Cost comes first, followed by access: few devices means a lab rotation, not a table per student. The BMC review lists no tactile feedback and variation in assessment methods among the weaknesses.

An integrative review (PMC10083048) adds that anatomical variations and congenital anomalies cannot be identified, there is no pediatric anatomy, and tissue color differs from real cadavers.

Student preference points the same way. In the BMC review, only 2.4% to 30.2% of students preferred learning on the virtual table alone, most favored a hybrid, and up to 68.5% valued cadaver realism. STAT News argued in March 2025 that the table "is nothing like the cadaver lab".

Who should buy it, and who should not?

Buy it if you run an anatomy course, a nursing or allied health program, or a simulation center, and you want shared, repeatable 3D anatomy with imaging and procedure views next to cadaver or model work. A program that cannot give students access time will waste it, because a single table serves a group.

Skip it if the goal is cutting the cadaver lab, if the budget is below the $68,000 base quote from the University of North Florida, or if the expected user is a practicing clinician who needs a tool for patient care. No head-to-head comparison with other anatomy products exists to rank them. One source lists the vendor Spectra at up to $200,000.