A group of Live Oak High School seniors took a scalpel and peeled back the skin of a cadaver named Victor to display his muscle system on Friday.

The scalpel and Victor, however, were both virtual. It is part of new advanced technology in Live Oak's anatomy class to teach students about the human body.

The virtual dissection now being implemented in Live Oak and other Livingston Parish schools is a 3D medical technology called Anatomage that takes real cadavers and turns them into virtual ones for students to study on touch-screen tables and tablets. Anatomage's educational tools mimic the dissection process, letting students zoom in on screen to view parts of the human body and separate them from the rest to look at their structures.

Two high schools, Albany High and Live Oak High, use

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