3D Printed Liver Models For Laparoscopic Resections

Recently, a team developed patient-specific, cost-effective 3D printed liver models, to help doctors with their preoperative plans before performing difficult laparoscopic resections. Jan Sylwester Witowski, an M.D. student at Poland's Jagiellonian University Medical College, created the 3D printed liver model. He recently published a paper about the model in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. As we've seen before when it comes to making 3D printed patient-specific organ models, the patient's CT scans are used to get a clear visualization of their anatomical structures, and the virtual models are then transformed into an STL file and 3D printed; Witowski used Blender, Meshmixer, and Cura software, and an Ultimaker 2+, to create his 3D printed liver model. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/165822/low-cost-3...d-liver-model/

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