Rapid prototyping use in medicine: application to neurosurgery / Uso de prototipagem Rapida em medicina : aplicação a neurocirurgia

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2005

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Rapid Prototyping enable the production of physical bolt models, products or tools from existing ones. There are several prototyping techniques available like Sthereolithography Selective Laser Sintering and 3D Printing, each of them forming objects by material decomposition layer by layer. The major application of this technique is in industry, with the creation or duplication of new products. Other areas, like art, education, paleontology and medicine also start using this technology. The technique has been used in medicine in the manufacturing of implant molds or in the surgical planning, using prototyping anatomy models produced with acquired data from image exams, like computerized tomography or magnetic resonance. The goal of this study is to describe the major applications of Rapid Prototyping in medicine, with the elucidation of clinical cases where the process were used. The production of a physical 3D model with this technique has been useful in the condition of complex cases, when the conventional image exams are doubtful, or the formation of a mental image is difficult to do. This method also has been contributing for the surgical time reduction, lower infection risk end better final aesthetic result

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surgical planning prototipagem rapida medicina cirurgia - planejamento systens reengineering reengenharia de sistemas medicine rapid prototyping

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