GE Works to Improve Medical Model 3D Printing

3D printed medical models offer patients and doctors a little something extra: the sense of touch. Jimmie Beacham, the chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, is working to make sure that models like this become more commonplace. Beacham and his team work at GE's Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering Center in Wisconsin, and are currently researching ways to efficiently translate images from CT scanners and other machines into 3D printable files, so 3D printed medical models can be produced as quickly as pushing the "Play" button for a movie on Netflix. However, making this one-touch 3D model printing a reality will be difficult, due to the vast amount of data in a CT scan. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/171496/ge-healthc...-print-models/

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