About the cross-section plates

If you have a basic or full knee kit model, your kit comes with cross-section plates attached to either end of the kit.

The cross-section plates included with the basic and full knee kit models.

The plates show you a cross-section of the anatomy at the middle of the thigh (superior) and middle of the leg (inferior), including the muscles, arteries, veins, nerves, and skin line segmented from the same cryosection data that was used to make the kit. Having these plates "bookend" the knee kit helps to relate the 3D structures of the knee kit with a 2D cross-sectional representation (as seen in a CT slice, for example) and to connect the knee kit with the structures just outside of the knee region.

The structures of the superior cross-section plate are labeled in the image below (muscles are not labeled in the image since they are already identified by the abbreviations printed into the plate).

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