Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Developmental disease, Perception image, Computer Applications-Virtual imaging, Computer Applications-3D, MR, Experimental, CT, Paediatric, Computer applications, Anatomy, Not applicable, Observational, Performed at one institution
Authors:
J. Munuera1, I. Barber2, M. Ayats1, S. ZABALA1, F. Zuccarino1, M. Rebollo1, E. Gratacós1, L. Krauel1, A. Valls1; 1Barcelona/ES, 2Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona)/ES
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-12437
Background
A new technology with medical application has exploded: 3D planning and printing.
1. The medical image can be treated as an object. This advantage allows that by means of editing programs similar to those used in architecture or engineering. The possibilities are endless in medicine: design of cutting guides, scaffolds, creation of ad-hoc models, evaluation of symmetries, ...
2. The use of virtual technology and additive manufacturing (3D printing). Having models with which you can interact both on the screen itself, and at the virtual level (virtual or augmented reality) and at the physical level is bringing some of the needs of clinicians closer to the image.
All aspects treated are especially important in pediatrics. Here are some examples:
- Surgical times: less time of anesthesia, less time of ischemia, reduction of complications.
- Motor skills practice: training of students in general cases or specialists in rare cases
- Doctor-patient relationship: models to support the doctor's explanations.
Fig. 1 Several aspects in which virtual 3D and 3D printed can help improve the surgeon's experience. In addition to including new senses (such as touch), possibility of planning are also added.
But to reach these results, a change in the usual workflow of the medical image is necessary: segmentation, post-processing and printing ( Fig. 2 ).