Additive manufacturing processes in medical applications

M Salmi - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing (AM, 3D printing) is used in many fields and different industries. In
the medical and dental field, every patient is unique and, therefore, AM has significant …

Tissue mimicking materials for imaging and therapy phantoms: a review

CK McGarry, LJ Grattan, AM Ivory, F Leek… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tissue mimicking materials (TMMs), typically contained within phantoms, have been used
for many decades in both imaging and therapeutic applications. This review investigates the …

3D printing materials and their use in medical education: a review of current technology and trends for the future

J Garcia, ZL Yang, R Mongrain… - BMJ simulation & …, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
3D printing is a new technology in constant evolution. It has rapidly expanded and is now
being used in health education. Patient-specific models with anatomical fidelity created from …

From medical imaging data to 3D printed anatomical models

TM Bücking, ER Hill, JL Robertson, E Maneas… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Anatomical models are important training and teaching tools in the clinical environment and
are routinely used in medical imaging research. Advances in segmentation algorithms and …

3D printing of polyether-ether-ketone for biomedical applications

S Singh, C Prakash, S Ramakrishna - European Polymer Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the rapid progress of several three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies, there
exists a critical barrier in-term of processability of high performance materials. Polyether …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional printing to facilitate anatomic study, device development, simulation, and planning in thoracic surgery

SN Kurenov, C Ionita, D Sammons… - The Journal of thoracic and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The development and deployment of new technologies in additive 3-
dimensional (3D) printing (ie, rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing) in conjunction …

Using 3D printing techniques to create an anthropomorphic thorax phantom for medical imaging purposes

C Hazelaar, M van Eijnatten, M Dahele, J Wolff… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Imaging phantoms are widely used for testing and optimization of imaging devices
without the need to expose humans to irradiation. However, commercially available …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the 3D printing of functional structures for medical phantoms and regenerated tissue and organ applications

K Wang, CC Ho, C Zhang, B Wang - Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Medical models, or “phantoms,” have been widely used for medical training and for
doctor-patient interactions. They are increasingly used for surgical planning, medical …

Role of CT and MRI in the design and development of orthopaedic model using additive manufacturing

A Haleem, M Javaid - Journal of clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To study the role of Computed tomography (CT) and Magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) for design and development of orthopaedic model using additive manufacturing (AM) …

Dual-material 3D printed metamaterials with tunable mechanical properties for patient-specific tissue-mimicking phantoms

K Wang, C Wu, Z Qian, C Zhang, B Wang… - Additive …, 2016 - Elsevier
Patient-specific tissue-mimicking phantoms have a wide range of biomedical applications
including validation of computational models and imaging techniques, medical device …