Lastly, anatomical phantoms can be designed to mimic tissue when imaged with the modality of interest most commonly ultrasound, Computed Tomography (CT), or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In addition, the phantoms can be used for pre-operative surgical planning, which has been shown to be beneficial in craniofacial surgery and is being explored in a number of other surgical fields. For example, improvement of central venous catheter insertions has been achieved by the use of anatomically and ultrasonically accurate teaching phantoms. Simulation-based training with anatomical models reduces the risks of surgical interventions, which are directly linked to patient experience and healthcare costs. In the clinic, the physical interaction with models facilitates learning anatomy and how different structures interact spatially in the body. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.Īnatomical models have applications in clinical training and surgical planning as well as in medical imaging research. However, the data is still publicly available but not free of charge.įunding: University College London Changemakers ( ) funded DIN, TMB, ERH, JLR, and EM. As such, we are not authorised to distribute the datasets used for this study. Osirix has since changed access rights and requires a paid membership. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: The datasets used in this publication ('MECANIX' and 'ARTIFIX' from the Osirix Website: ) were freely available at the time of writing. Received: OctoAccepted: Published: May 31, 2017Ĭopyright: © 2017 Bücking et al. PLoS ONE 12(5):Įditor: Han-Chiao Isaac Chen, University of Pennsylvania, UNITED STATES

Citation: Bücking TM, Hill ER, Robertson JL, Maneas E, Plumb AA, Nikitichev DI (2017) From medical imaging data to 3D printed anatomical models.

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