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. 1997 May;79(3):169–174.

Rapid prototyping techniques for anatomical modelling in medicine.

M McGurk 1, A A Amis 1, P Potamianos 1, N M Goodger 1
PMCID: PMC2502901  PMID: 9196336

Abstract

The rapid advances in computer technology, often driven by the demands of industry, have created new possibilities in surgery which previous generations of surgeons could only have imagined. Improved imaging with computerised tomography (CT) has been followed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and, more recently, it has become possible to reformat the data as three-dimensional images. Computer technology has new moved forward with the advent of rapid prototyping techniques (RPT) which allow both the production of models of the hard tissues and custom-made prostheses from computerised scanning data. In this article we review the development and current technologies available in RPT and the applications of this advance in surgery and illustrate this with two case reports.

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