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Digital anatomy models

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Digital anatomy models

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- [Woman] 3D prints can be very powerful tools for visualization and prototyping. They can be particularly useful in situations like medical procedure planning. For every case is different, and the stakes may literally be life and death. For those cases, there are now well established procedures to take a CT scan or 3-D ultrasound file and convert it to a file that can be 3-D printed. This can be useful both for the doctor planning a surgery and for the patient and their families to understand what's going on. For example, in the paper shown here, a surgeon created a 3-D printed model to work out how to separate conjoined twins. Exciting though these clinical systems are, there is in many ways an even bigger need of 3-D visualizations to train medical students. All teachers make little models to show students how something works. And doctor supervising residents are no different. This is particularly challenging for…

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