3D printing is becoming increasingly popular around the world today. By utilizing 3D printing technology, customized products can be manufactured much more quickly and efficiently with much less cost. However, 3D printing still suffers from low quality surface reproduction compared with 2D printing. One effective approach to improve it is to develop an advanced halftoning algorithm for 3D print...

The need for functionally graded material (FGM) parts has surfaced with the development of material science and additive manufacturing techniques. Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) processes can locally deposit different metallic powders to produce FGM parts. Yet inappropriate mixing of materials without considering the influence of varying dilution rates and the variation of material properties ca...

Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a rapidly evolving technology with several potential applications in the diagnosis and management of cardiac disease. Recently, 3D printing (i.e. rapid prototyping) derived from 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has become possible. Due to the multiple steps involved and the specific equipment required for each step, it might be difficult to start impl...

Cellular materials, metallic bodies with gaseous voids, are a promising class of materials that offer high strength accompanied by a relatively low mass. Unfortunately, existing manufacturing techniques constrain a designer to a predetermined part mesostructure, material type, and macrostructure. In this paper, the authors document their design rationale for the selection of the Three-Dimension...

What radiologists need to know about 3D printing and its main applications in musculoskeletal imaging Dear Editor, The utility of the various imaging methods in the evaluation and diagnosis of musculoskeletal disorders is well established, and those methods play a fundamental role in the planning of the different treatments, be they conservative or surgical, providing images that can be manipul...