Tuesday, April 9, 2013

3-D Printers Provide Surgeons With Models Of Organs And Bones

Next To Use 3-D Printing:  Your Surgeon by Juro Osawa.  The Wall Street Journal.  April 8, 2013.

Two U.S. companies offer machines that can replicate human organs to provide accurate models of organs that they will operate on.  For example, using CT scans, a surgeon may, before surgery, have a "feel" of what an organ or tumor may require by holding an exact model.

No comments:

Post a Comment