Dr. Mike Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Just this past weekend I gave a presentation on uses of 3D printing in interventional radiology at the Western Angiographic and Interventional Society meeting in Vancouver, BC. It was very well received. In my opinion, there has not been enough work on applications in 3D printing for vascular procedures, such as those done in IR. Is anyone else involved in 3D printing for vascular applications: IR, vascular surgery, neurointervention, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mplishka Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Just came across this (It may be in another topic here, if so, apologies!) http://3dprint.com/88316/wacker-3d-printed-silicone/ Be a great material for vascular stuff, especially stent placement, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mplishka Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Dr. Mike, are you presenting or attending RSNA? Would love to touch base in person! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Mike Posted October 26, 2015 Author Share Posted October 26, 2015 I'll be there. I am presenting several 3D printing-related sessions, including a hands-on session on design with open-source software which will be Monday at 2:30 PM. Looking forward to seeing you there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwpemberton Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Dr. Mike I uploaded an STL file of a skull repair from Dicom data I obtained from the Osirix site. As a design engineer this is a reverse engineering type of application where we are taking raster data imaging and making a model from it. A high resolution scan can lead to data that has a million faces or more which is more than my design software (Solidworks) can handle which is limited to 100,000 faces. I have no problem post processing and scaling the data back by decimating it to reduce the number of faces. The general geometry seems to be OK but I have concerns with measurement errors etc... caused by such a drastic reduction of data (85% for the file I processed). I am really interested in getting into the custom design of implants with precision design tools such as Solidworks or Inventor. The design packages have severe limitations to the number of raster points they can process. If I was modeling a skull or region of interest, to get the highest resolution model, I would have to scale the data back to only the region of interest and remove all areas that are not necessary. I am concerned anytime that I have to Decimate a model with regard to creating geometry errors. Is there a tool or a better way of doing this to create a model or am I generally on the right approach and have to accept the limitations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Lazarus3D based at Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX offers "silicone-like" soft color 3D printed medical models specially designed for surgical simulation of solid organ procedures. They use a proprietary printer technology they developed and patented in-house: http://www.laz3d.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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