3D-printed models optimize preoperative planning for pediatric cardiac tumor debulking

Projector-Based Textures for 3D-Printed Models

The now widely available 3D-printing technology enables structural molecular biologists to easily produce tangible models of large and complex molecules, which can aid them in understanding their spatial structure. Those models, however, are static and often monochrome, therefore their information content cannot compete with existing screenbased visualization solutions. Following the paradigm o...

Abstract: 14.30 3D Printed Models As Teaching Models And Surgical Planning Tool

IntroductIon: Complete clefts lip and palate represent a long journey for patients, families and the cleft team. We have to face a lack of function, symmetry and shape. There are involved soft tissue, muscles, cartilages, bone and all of them are displaced, distorted or missed. In more than 40 years of experience in our department we developed a strong surgical protocol that has a its center th...

3D-Printed Patient-Specific Models for CT- and MRI-Guided Procedure Planning.

Using 3D printed models for planning and guidance during endovascular intervention: a technical advance.

Three-dimensional (3D) printing applications in medicine have been limited due to high cost and technical difficulty of creating 3D printed objects. It is not known whether patient-specific, hollow, small-caliber vascular models can be manufactured with 3D printing, and used for small vessel endoluminal testing of devices. Manufacture of anatomically accurate, patient-specific, small-caliber ar...

3D printed cardiovascular models for surgical planning in complex congenital heart diseases

Background A precise understanding of the anatomical structures of the heart and great vessels is essential for surgical planning in order to avoid unexpected findings. Rapid prototyping techniques are used to print three-dimensional (3D) replicas of patients’ cardiovascular anatomy based on 3D clinical images such as MRI. The purpose of this study is to explore the use of 3D patient-specific c...