3d printed heart library
Heart in Hand, Henry Ford Health System Leads the Way in Cardiac 3D Printing
While we’re a long ways off yet from 3D printing organs for transplant, today’s reality is seeing 3D printed hearts saving patient lives in plastic. The structural heart team at…
3D Printing to Understand and Heal Hearts at Henry Ford Health System
To heal the heart, we have to use our brains — and the human brain understands three dimensions. The difference between a 2D CT scan and a 3D printed model…
Healthcare Institutions Partner to Create Comprehensive Online Library of 3D Heart Models
While 3D printing and 3D scanning technologies are becoming more standard in healthcare, they’re still very new, and in some cases, experimental. We cover a lot of stories about lifesaving surgeries…
Illinois Doctor is Building a Library of 3D Printable Hearts
We have seen several major stories in the past year, where doctors have been using 3D printed models of hearts, created from MRI scans. These hearts are typically life-size when printed,…