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From preoperative planning to patient education, an increasing number of distinct applications have been emerging in medical 3D printing. A relatively new practice in the field has been to use 3D-printed models to train radiology residents in the diagnosis of complex conditions.
To what extent can 3D printing improve the accuracy of these budding radiologists in diagnosing hip socket fractures? Researchers from Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia explore this and similar questions in our Insider Exclusive.
Yet another way clinicians have been implementing 3D printing into medicine is to evaluate the quality of imaging devices using individually tailored 3D-printed phantoms. Learn how investigators from the University of Maryland and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration created and used 3D-printed breast phantoms based on mammograms for that very purpose.
In other news, founders of New Zealand start-up Mars Bioimaging have developed a spectral CT scanner capable of producing 3D images of objects in color and with much higher resolution than conventional CT scanners. Check out one of the first clinical images captured with this device by clicking here.
A group out of the U.K. has also explored a 3D CT technique for detecting miniscule changes in the spacing between arthritic joints. Click here to find out how well the new method fared compared with standard x-ray imaging.
Advances in virtual reality and augmented reality have also proved useful for helping clinicians interpret images and perform procedures. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discussed in a review article how these technologies have been transforming cardiovascular imaging. And a separate team from the University of Southern California demonstrated how virtual reality software could bolster the task of correcting segmentation errors on MRI scans.
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