Additive manufacturing (AM, 3D printing) is used in many fields and different industries. In
the medical and dental field, every patient is unique and, therefore, AM has significant …

Purpose–Aims to investigate medical rapid prototyping (medical RP) technology
applications and methods based on reverse engineering (RE) and medical imaging data …

Design methods for medical rapid prototyping (RP) of personalized cranioplasty implants
are presented in this paper. These methods are applicable to model cranioplasty implants …

INTRODUCTION: Our objective was to enable accurate miniscrew placement after
preoperative simulation. We developed a new template for miniscrew placement and …

Understanding, controlling and manipulation of patient data as well as shape, geometry and
structure of the biomedical objects are important for developing Biomedical Engineering …

Additive manufacturing (AM, 3D printing) is used in many fields and different industries. In
the medical and dental field, every patient is unique and, therefore, AM has significant …

Although the use of personalized annuloplasty rings manufactured for each patient
according to the size and morphology of their valve complex could be beneficial for the …

This paper presents the effects of building mesh models of the human skull and the cranial
bones from a series of CT-scans. With the aid of computer software, 3D reconstructions of …

Custom titanium cranioplasty plates, manufactured by a variety of techniques, have been
used to repair a range of cranial defects. The authors present a case where two relatively …

Modern design and manufacturing engineering technologies have greatly improved the way
in which modern craniofacial implants are designed and fabricated. However, few efforts …