Primal Pictures

3D Human Anatomy as You Have Never Seen it Before

Overview


Primal Pictures resources are the world’s most medically accurate and detailed 3D graphic renderings of human anatomy. With benchmark anatomy, physiology, and clinical content, Primal Pictures is widely accepted as the best in class and used by thousands of health science educators, students and practitioners worldwide to teach, learn and practice. Settings for their product Anatomy.tv include:


  • Education: superb digital solutions ideal for many health science and medical courses
  • Medical Practice: used by Healthcare Practitioners in almost every specialty
  • Corporate: presentations to board or colleagues
  • Students: used on a wide range of courses to enhance their knowledge of anatomy

Anatomy.tv, the Primal Pictures 3D anatomy model, was built from CT scans of a full human skeleton. Structures such as muscles, vessels, nerves and organs were constructed using their own MRI data and cross-sectional cadaver images. All of the content within this program has been verified by qualified anatomists and by a team of external experts for each body area.


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Here are just a few of our key features:


  • • Primal Pictures has 3D modeling of all structures
  • • Provides the ability to rotate the model 360 degrees and add or remove layers of anatomy
  • • Allows users to link to relevant text, dissections, clinical slides, diagrams, video clips and MRI Scans
  • • Provides educators at hundreds of colleges and universities around the world with effective teaching solutions in a wide range of medical courses
  • • Helps students in over 600 colleges and universities around the world enhance their knowledge of anatomy and physiology in a wide range of courses
  • • Gives healthcare practitioners around the world a patient education aid, a reference tool, and an image library

Choose the solution set that is right for you.

Primal Pictures Medical Education Solution
  • • 3D Atlas of Human Anatomy
  • • 3D Cross-sectional Human Anatomy for CT and MRI: Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis
  • • 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • • 3D Human Anatomy for Ultrasound: Lower Limb
  • • 3D Human Anatomy for Ultrasound: Upper Limb
  • • 3D Real-time Human Anatomy
  • • Disease & Conditions

Primal Pictures Dental Education Solution
  • • 3D Human Anatomy for Dental Hygiene
  • • 3D Human Anatomy for Dentistry
  • • 3D Real-time Anatomy for Dentistry

Primal Pictures Nursing & Midwifery Education Solution
  • • 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • • 3D Real-time Human Anatomy Whole Body
  • • Disease & Conditions

Primal Pictures PT & Sport Science Education Solution
  • • 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • • 3D Human Anatomy for Ultrasound: Lower Limb
  • • 3D Human Anatomy for Ultrasound: Upper Limb
  • • 3D Human Functional Anatomy
  • • Real-time Functional Anatomy
  • • Resistance Training

Primal Pictures Speech & Language Education Solution
  • • 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology for Audiology
  • • 3D Human Anatomy for Speech Language Pathology

Primal Pictures Healthcare Solution
  • • 3D Real-time Human Anatomy
  • • Disease & Conditions

TDS Health subscribers have the ability to create custom solutions in order to meet specific content needs. TDS Health will work with your institution to design the proper collection according to your size, fields of study and desired content, to ensure your institution is receiving the resources it needs. If one of our comprehensive packages doesn’t already meet your needs, pick and choose from the offerings below:

  • • Primal's 3D Real-Time
  • • Primal's 3D Real-Time Dentistry
  • • Primal's 3D Real-Time Functional Anatomy
  • • Primal's Disease & Conditions
  • • Primal's Human Anatomy & Physiology
  • • Primal's PALMs Anatomy Learning and Assessment Modules
  • • Primal's VR
  • • Primal's 3D Atlas
  • • Primal's 3D Cross-sectional Human Anatomy for CT and MRI: Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis
  • • Primal's 3D Functional Anatomy
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy & Physiology for Audiology
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Chiropractic Spine
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Dental Hygiene
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Dentistry
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Exercise
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Massage and Manual Therapies
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Pelvic Floor Disorders
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Pilates
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Resistance Training
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Speech Language Pathology
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Trains
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Ultrasound: Lower Limb
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Ultrasound: Upper Limb
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Urology
  • • Primal's 3D Human Anatomy for Yoga

Anatomy PALMs

Primal Pictures has partnered with Med Insight LT, a leading learning technology company applying cutting-edge research in cognitive science to achieve breakthroughs in computer-based learning, to introduce Primal PALMs. Modules of Anatomy Learning and Assessment are powered by patented technology that reinforces comprehension and understanding of essential anatomy concepts mastered by using Primal’s market-leading 3D anatomy solutions. These learning modules are based on Med Insight LT’s Perceptual and Adaptive Learning Modules™ (PALMs) which adapts to the individual learner, accelerating pattern recognition, so students and staff can quickly master both facts and interpretations of clinically-relevant material.

Disease & Conditions

Disease & Conditions from Primal Pictures is a single source for clear and consistent normal to disease-state anatomy content. Save time, enhance comprehension, and improve learning outcomes with a library of verified content. Educators can make conditions more relatable and identifiable by providing additional context to textbook explanations.

Disease & Conditions provides healthcare providers (HCPs) and patients with consistent anatomical images in an engaging solution:

  • • A complete workflow from normal to diseased anatomy solves the challenge of finding a single trusted content source tailored for patient education.
  • • For HCP reference in their daily workflows, reducing the time spent on research.
  • • Facilitates better patient outcomes by combining Primal’s trusted anatomy model with an ever- expanding bank of clinical mixed media content for reference and education.
  • • Each condition has been reviewed by anatomy and healthcare experts for maximum accuracy, clarity and educational focus.
  • • Images, animations and guided videos are fully integrated and searchable in Primal’s Anatomy.tv Smart Search, ensuring users can find condition-specific content in context with normal anatomy.

Quality

Based on Primal’s trusted anatomy model, our in-house team of anatomists and network of experts have reviewed and verified full accuracy of each clinical content.


Consistency

Using Primal’s existing content as a base maintains seamless continuity between normal and abnormal anatomy.


Patient-focused

Promotes productive doctor-patient exchange using graphics that deliver information clearly without being shocking or scary.


End-to-End Solution

Accessible and fully searchable via Anatomy.tv, providing a complete solution via one single, easy-to-use interface.


Mixed Media Approach

Combines custom images and animations with videos bringing together normal, abnormal and clinical anatomy in detail. Each condition includes up to four videos: Condition Overview, Causes, Symptoms and Treatments.

Virtual Reality (VR)

Increase comprehension, engagement, and enthusiasm for learning with Primal Virtual Reality (VR), a fully immersive, interactive, and engaging virtual environment for teaching and learning human anatomy. Primal VR marries Primal Pictures’ best-in-class 3D human anatomy model with cutting-edge virtual reality technology supplied by their partner Curiious. Primal VR provides an unforgettable teaching and learning experience for both educators and students.

Interact with human anatomy in a completely new way with Primal VR. Walk 360 degrees around the model and select, scale, and rotate each structure for a fully immersive experience that raises the understanding of anatomy while also increasing spatial awareness. Highlight individual structures to hear pronunciation and explore detailed contextual information. Boost assessment outcomes with a new way of learning that ignites excitement, and enthusiasm, and aids retention and recall.

Key Benefits and Features:

  • • Increased engagement, comprehension, excitement, and attendance – leading to enhanced assessment outcomes
  • • Perfect for blended learning environments, providing another touchpoint and a new way of approaching subject matter
  • • Simulate and enhance the experience of the cadaver lab, before and after live sessions
  • • Interact with Primal’s 3-D anatomy model in a fully immersive virtual environment
  • • Enjoy comprehensive coverage of the entire human body with over 13,000 structures individually modeled
  • • Navigate anatomy models by walking around them or manipulating the models themselves
  • • Employ the intuitive tools used to manipulate the anatomy including:
          o Structure selection
          o Hiding structures
          o X-ray structures
          o Pull out structures
          o Structure pronunciation

General Requirements: (except as noted)

Browsers: - 64 Bit Versions Recommended
  • Chrome (v56b or newer)
  • Firefox (v51 or newer)
  • Microsoft Edge (v79 or newer)
  • Safari (v15 or newer)

Operating systems:
  • Microsoft® Windows 10 or newer
  • Mac OS X 10 or newer

Memory
  • 8 GB RAM Minimum recommended

Video Card
  • Required: Intel core i3/i5 or i7 9th gen or newer or AMD Ryzen Zen core or newer
  • Optional: Dedicated video card with 64+ MB on-board RAM (for Real-time products only but not required)

Network
  • Recommended: 30 Mbps download

iPhone/iPad - General

  • Operating System: iOS 11.3 or later, iOS 14 or newer recommended
  • Processor: Apple A7 processors or better
  • Devices: The following devices are supported:
        • iPhone 5S or better (certain products only)
        • iPad Air or better
        • iPad Mini 2 or better

For augmented reality features

  • Processor: Apple A9 or better
  • Storage: 1.5 GB (for Real-Time products only)
  • Browsers: Safari / Chrome
  • Network: Internet connectivity required for accessing products
  • Devices: The following devices are supported:
        • iPhone 6S or better
        • iPhone SE
        • iPad Pro or better
        • iPad (5th generation)

Android

  • Operating System: Android 5 or newer
  • Storage: 785 MB (for Real-Time products only)
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Browsers: Chrome
  • Network: Internet connectivity required for accessing products
  • Augmented Reality (AR) features for Android REQUIRE phones that support AR Core from Google (installed via Google Play store)
  • Quiz app requires Android 9 or newer

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FAQ



If you are a personal subscriber, the number of users set to your account is one and if this has been exceeded you will see this error message. If this does happen, you can reset and log out of any other browser by going to the 'reset logins' option that will appear.

If you are a subscriber at an institution, the number of users is set to an agreed limit and when this has been exceeded you will see this error message.

Other common reasons for being locked out:
Users closing the browser and not using the 'log off' button.
Inactivity for more than 20 minutes logs you out. For example if you are reading text and not using your mouse, the system may see this as inactivity.

Your subscription or license with us may have expired. Or there may be an IP clash if another department in your institution has/had a license with us. Please contact us with your username (and institution if relevant) at clientservices@primalpictures.com
You can embed parts of the product but not the entire thing. Just like a YouTube video you can embed any of our content from our products into your LMS/VLE or website. Just select the content you want and click on the "Embed" button found in the left-hand toolbar. For more help go here https://www.anatomy.tv/help-ev.
Whenever the embed button is available the content can be embedded in your site – 3D views, Slides, Movies, and Quizzes. However, you can't currently embed from the Real-time product.
You probably make use of a proxy to access our content. Please contact clientservices@primalpictures.com and we’ll add your proxy to our list of allowed urls.
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Yes, Primal's 3D Atlas of Human Anatomy, 3D Real-time (all titles, excluding Whole Body), 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology, 3D Human Functional Anatomy, 3D Human Anatomy for Dentistry and 3D Human Anatomy for Speech Language Pathology products are all compatible with iPad and iPad mini. We will soon have all of our other leading products available on this platform.
Yes, Primal's 3D Atlas of Human Anatomy, 3D Real-time (all titles, excluding Whole Body), 3D Human Anatomy and Physiology, 3D Human Functional Anatomy, 3D Human Anatomy for Dentistry and 3D Human Anatomy for Speech Language Pathology products are all compatible with Android tablets. We will soon have all of our other leading products available on this platform.
This change has been prompted by all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari etc) making the decision to discontinue the support of Flash. Flash underpins the current modules found in the Quizzes & Activities tab.
We’ll be moving all of our existing Quizzes & Activities into a Legacy Quizzes & Activities tab in the Titles section of anatomy.tv where you will be able to access these modules as normal up until the browsers no longer support Flash. This move is intended to partition away modules that will cease to work due to the incoming changes with the way browsers handle Flash.
Although the Quizzes & Activities can be accessed until the end of December 2020, we’ll be launching a improved replacement quiz very soon that is not underpinned by Flash. It is intended to replace all our regional Flash-based quizzes and the Functional Anatomy quiz module. It will be available in a new Quizzing tab in the Titles section of anatomy.tv so it is right at the forefront of your anatomy.tv experience.
More about Flash & Quizzes.
Are you accessing our site via a proxy URL from off-campus?
Please send us your Proxy URL used for our site so that we can add that to our allowed list. The easiest way for doing this, is copy the URL that you see in the address bar when you launch the product.
Yes, this plugin is required for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari. You can download and install this safely from here http://unity3d.com/webplayer.
This product is now also supported on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge via their built-in WebGL feature.
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Susan B. Warner, MLS
Covenant Medical Library
I am quite pleased to comment on the STAT!Ref and Anatomy.tv [Primal Pictures] products. We have a diploma school of nursing as part of our health system. These two products are used heavily by our students. Also, staff nurses and others are using these products. There have been no problems here with access or down time. In the first month, the STAT!Ref book on fluids and electrolytes had 78 hits. This was before some orientations were even complete. I certainly hope to add to our STAT!Ref products for our next budget year.
Calista Kelly, PT, DPT, ACEEAA, Cert. MDT
Anatomy.tv offers a wide array of anatomical images, a growing library of pathological anatomical images, and excellent videos on many topic areas. I utilize Anatomy.tv regularly for our continuing education courses on PhysicalTherapy.com. I work with our presenters and other colleagues at continued.com identifying the appropriate images for their presentations which in turn assists our learners to understand and apply the content taught by our expert presenters in their respective fields.
Dr Peter Belafsky
There is a digital healthcare revolution underway that is fundamentally changing the way medical information is shared, presented and used by physicians, educators and students. At the heart of this revolution is Anatomy.tv, the World’s First Complete 3D Model of Human Anatomy.
Nicholas Parany
Massage Australia
My suggestion is if you want to present your clinic or services as being progressive and professional then this is the product for you. This is truly an exceptional new program and is highly recommended as both a reference and an educational resource for anyone dealing with human anatomy.
Dr S.C van Bokhoven
Musculoskeletal Radiologist, The Netherlands
The 3D real-time viewer I was pleased to use is AMAZING!! It's so easy to use and so beautiful. My colleagues were completely surprised by the astonishing quality and simplicity in which it is to use. As a radiologist we use images all day, every day. Your images are THE images to use in presentations or just for anatomic correlation during evaluation of scans.
Eric Greska
Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware
I took a look, I saw Primal’s Embed feature, and I was like, sold! I like how quick and easy it is to enrich my course materials using the same trusted content I've always used on Anatomy.tv. I just saw that it said, Embed, and then you can go choose Canvas. And as the embedded content retains its original dynamic functionality, my students can rotate, layer, highlight and use the labelling for interactive images or simply play, pause, and replay the videos. One of the big things is that they just really enjoy the amount of material that they have to study with. And for everything that we’re able to give to these students, it has definitely improved their performance.
Kathy Pappas
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences - Springfield College, Springfield
The ability to import images, the ability to have some true human dissection, the radiological images, and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives have been really important for our program. Overall, Primal has certainly met my expectations and goals in teaching.
Srinivas Nagaraj Bharadwaj PhD.
Associate Professor, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida
Why I like Primal is because of the accuracy of the structures. Then, you can integrate it into your LMS by using the different embedding features. We wanted a software where students don’t have to look at another book or anything for accuracy sake. So, we went for Primal.
Nicolette Richardson PhD.
Assistant Professor School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University
I used Primal software initially as a virtual lab for students. That was my initial goal with Primal, and I definitely think that we’ve accomplished that. Every week they have a list of structures they have to find, examine from different angles and get to understand the relationships between the structures. Next, we discuss, and later I give them online quizzes using images from the Primal software. Student engagement has been excellent... My students tell me that they’re now using Primal to supplement some of their other courses as well and they’re enjoying it.
Eileen Chusid
Director of Histology & Cell Biology, New York College of Podiatric Medicine
We are constantly looking for additional information which would help our students. Not everybody learns the same way, so there would be additional ancillary help outside the classroom the student could access himself or herself that would be sort of a programmed learning experience for them.
Dave Wieber
Physical Therapist, Certified Athletic Trainer and Certified Manual Therapist
Before I began using Primal, I had to select pages from books to use for slides in my presentations. So having the software and being able to illustrate my teaching points in 3D on a PowerPoint presentation makes a massive difference. It's also a fantastic resource for producing test questions for use in class. Using Primal gives a better idea of the origins and insertions of muscles – it's like taking a walk through the body – and facilitates a much deeper understanding of what is happening. I find that there is a quicker and more thorough uptake of the subject by teaching with the aid of the 3D images – especially since I can choose specific angles and layers for my presentations in order to illustrate the points I am making.
David Kent
International Instructor of Human Anatomy and Manual Therapy
The Head and Neck software demonstrates structures and movements that were previously difficult to visualize with beautifully designed interactive graphics which has definitely taken anatomical education and presentation to the next level.
Lisa, Department Head
Dental Hygiene Program, Community College
Anatomy.tv is a great tool for our dental hygiene students to study head and neck anatomy. It is especially useful for our online students who don't have the benefit of visual learning in the onsite classroom setting. Head and neck anatomy – bones, muscles, nerves, arteries, etc are tough to visualize and this tool definitely aids the visual learner. I like the layering capability to allow students to study and review selected areas and then 'put it all together' for an overall impression. Another good piece of teaching technology to place in our toolkit. Thanks!
R. Armstrong, MD
You will not find a comparable degree of versatility, depth, richness of content or pure good looks.
Melanie Belliveau, Library Technician
Health Information Network Calgary, Rockyview Hospital Knowledge Centre
We've had Anatomy.tv for a while now and every time I use it I am amazed by how detailed it is. One of my favorite features is the ability in the MRI area to click on a structure and have it highlighted on the actual MRI. I also love the videos, especially the shoulder rotation one.
Diane Primavera
Catskill Regional Medical Center
Really exciting - haven't had this kind of interactive fun since playing "Operation" as a kid. I could see this as useful aid in student presentations, called my co-workers in to try it out as well and everyone including sonographer, mammo tech, OB/GYN, and LPN studying to become RN loved it.

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