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RP Medical Applications
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Rapid Prototyping has started playing an important role in the areas of medicine. One of these is the development of medical devices and instruments. It allows engineers and designers to maximize their productivity, decrease their development time and at the end create a more functional product.
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Stereolithography builds plastic parts one layer at a time by tracing a laser beam over a photo curable liquid resin. A vat of polymer or resin sits underneath the laser; as the laser contacts the top layer of the polymer the vat lowers the cured layer while the laser continues to draw the object.
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Rapid Prototyping has brought many improvements to the field of medical prosthetics and implants. Stereolithography is used in the design process and/or the manufacturer of custom sized parts.
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Technologies such as Computed Tomography (CT) or MRI in connection with Rapid Prototyping are used to recreate internal human body parts.
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Rapid Prototyping medical applications
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Bone Imaging : Permit scans of human skull and filter out the flesh, tissues and brain leaving only the bone to image. 3D modeling of the skull allows a insight like never before.
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Model Surgery : allow physician as well as students to rehears difficult surgery before it commences. Rapid Prototyping medical applications allows students a true representation of patients that are under study.
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Accurate Representation : allow accurate representation of the patient that traditional technology such as CT scan doesn’t allow.
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Increased Surgical Success : Stereolithography increases the chance of success in difficulty surgery. With Rapid Prototyping medical applications many of the surprises of experimental surgery will be things of the past.
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Scanning and Planning : With Stereolithography facilitates pre-operative planning. Each step of the medical procedure can be planning like never before. Scanning and reproducing the potential area prepares medical personnel for unseen problems. This reduces the operation time which the patient has to be subjected to.
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Rapid Prototyping medical applications enables medical specialist to rehearse never before surgery procedures. Surgeries that in the past was too risky for patient survival can now be performed.
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Rapid Prototyping medical applications Review
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- Prostheses
- Implants
- Medical equipment
- Medical Instruments
- Human anatomy
- Surgical planning
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