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American Journal of Neuroradiology 26:1428-1431, June-July 2005
© 2005 American Society of Neuroradiology

Technical Note
INTERVENTIONAL

Stereolithographic Vascular Replicas from CT Scans: Choosing Treatment Strategies, Teaching, and Research from Live Patient Scan Data

Kimberly Knoxa, Charles W. Kerbera, Soren A. Singela, Michael J. Baileya and Steven G. Imbesia

a From the Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA

Address correspondence to Charles W. Kerber, Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego Medical Center, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92103

Summary: Our goal was to develop a system that would allow us to recreate live patient arterial pathology by using an industrial technique known as stereolithography (or rapid prototyping). In industry, drawings rendered into dicom files can be exported to a computer programmed to drive various industrial tools. Those tools then make a 3D structure shown by the original drawings. We manipulated CT scan dicom files to drive a stereolithography machine and were able to make replicas of the vascular diseases of three patients.




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