Complete Anatomy App Will Use LiDAR in iPad Pro to Measure Range of Motion After Injury

Complete Anatomy, an iPad app from 3D4Medical, is designed to teach medical school students human anatomy with a virtual dissectible heart, real-time muscle movement mapping, nerve tracer, and microanatomy models to explore.


In the future, Complete Anatomy will take advantage of the LiDAR Scanner built into the 2020 iPad Pro to add a new feature that will allow healthcare professionals to accurately and instantly assess the range of motion of patients who are recovering from an injury or surgery.

The feature is demoed in a YouTube video featuring Irene Walsh, the chief design officer at Complete Anatomy. According to Walsh, there has been no standardized way to measure range of motion, a problem solved with the ‌iPad Pro‌'s LiDAR Scanner.

Using the new 2020 ‌iPad Pro‌, Complete Anatomy is able to view movements in three dimensions, using motion capture to identify which movement a person is doing. Movements are paired with 3D muscle animations, providing information on the primary muscles required to carry out the action.

Walsh says that the upcoming version of Complete Anatomy on the ‌iPad‌ "has the potential to transform the medical community of the future."

The LiDAR Scanner feature is coming to the Complete Anatomy app in the near future, though no specific release date is provided. So far, few apps are able to take advantage of the LiDAR Scanner, but previews like these give us an idea of just how powerful of a tool it will be when implemented by developers.

Rumors suggest that iPhones set to be released in 2020 will also include a similar 3D scanning LiDAR feature, which would allow Apple's iPhones and ‌iPad Pro‌ models to be used for more advanced and exciting augmented reality functions.

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Top Rated Comments

mannyvel Avatar
41 months ago

Why don't people capitalize the "i" in LIDAR? Nobody writes RaDAR.
RADAR was named by the military, where grammar pedants are actively hunted down and killed.
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dannyyankou Avatar
41 months ago

Why don't people capitalize the "i" in LIDAR? Nobody writes RaDAR.
Light Detection and Ranging. The Li stands for one word, if they were all capitalized it would imply L and I both stood for different words.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dannyyankou Avatar
41 months ago

Read my second sentence.
You can comb through the entire English language and ask why some words are the way they are. Lots of inconsistencies.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
I7guy Avatar
41 months ago
That is cool and the tip of iceberg.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
konqerror Avatar
41 months ago

Light Detection and Ranging. The Li stands for one word, if they were all capitalized it would imply L and I both stood for different words.
Read my second sentence.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Piggie Avatar
41 months ago
I have no idea how my grandmother lived into her 90's without an iPad or any health/body tracking apps.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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