The possibility of rapid prototyping in the manufacture of 3-D models of cranial implants from CT-DATA

Abstract

The article is devoted to the development of a method for manufacturing models of cranial implants using full-scale prototyping by means of extrusion 3D printing. According to the results, specialized software was developed that allows building a geometric model of cranial implants with the maximum degree of automation, performing spatial visualization of the volume model of the implant and generating initial data to create the corresponding full-scale model.

Research on repairing defective skull based on rapid prototyping manufacturing technology

“…In clinical practice, computerassisted tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and other technologies can be used to obtain 2D images of a localized interface of the human body. After 3D reconstruction using CAD software, RP technology can be used to manufacture solid models of organs or bones [10] . Previous research on skull repair mainly relied on the reconstruction of a threedimensional mesh model using DICOM data, and then utilized rapid prototyping technology in reverse engineering.…”