Innovator procedure using 3D Design and Printing of bone tissues for educational and hospital applications

Abstract

In recent years, 3D print has impacted the industry in many countries, for example in the US and Germany, the 65% -83% of their businesses are nowadays using digital manufacturing in their process. 3D printing is especially important for medicine to see the complete structures of the patient's body before surgery or other medical procedures. But it is more common use 2D visualizations such as slices of tomography or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) always used for medical education and medical diagnosis, than use 3D design or model. The purpose of this study is to create a procedure or flow for the manufacture of a bone anatomical model using FDM technology, and this can be accepted for educational applications and a future implementation in health establishments or university centers. Then, the selection and generation of polygonal meshes were segmented with Invesalius 3.1 software. Also, Meshmixer software was used for cleaning and optimize meshes. Finally, with the use of Netfabb software, the 3D design was prepared for subsequent domestic 3D printing. In the methodology of this research, medical images from a computed tomography will be used, as well as the Invesalius, Meshmixer, Netfabb software, which will help 3D design of the femur, and finally 3D printing of the bone model. Likewise, together with the analysis of the results of the acceptance survey of the three-dimensional model, the cost of manufacturing and the implementation of this new flow of manufacturing anatomical models will be obtained.