RT Journal Article
T1 Affordable Three-Dimensional Printed Heart Models
A1 Gómez-Ciriza, Gorka
A1 Gómez-Cía, Tomás
A1 Rivas-González, José Antonio
A1 Velasco Forte, Mari Nieves
A1 Valverde, Israel
K1 Affordable 3d printing
K1 Surgical planning
K1 Interventional planning
K1 Heart models
K1 Medical education
K1 Impresión tridimensional
K1 Procedimientos quirúrgicos vasculares
K1 Planificación hospitalaria
K1 Corazón
K1 Modelos cardiovasculares
K1 Educación médica
AB This is a 7-years single institution study on low-cost cardiac three-dimensional (3D) printing based on the use of free open-source programs and affordable printers and materials. The process of 3D printing is based on several steps (image acquisition, segmentation, mesh optimization, slicing, and three-dimensional printing). The necessary technology and the processes to set up an affordable three-dimensional printing laboratory are hereby described in detail. Their impact on surgical and interventional planning, medical training, communication with patients and relatives, patients' perception on care, and new cardiac device development was analyzed. A total of 138 low-cost heart models were designed and printed from 2013 to 2020. All of them were from different congenital heart disease patients. The average time for segmentation and design of the hearts was 136 min; the average time for printing and cleaning the models was 13.5 h. The average production cost of the models was €85.7 per model. This is the most extensive series of 3D printed cardiac models published to date. In this study, the possibility of manufacturing three-dimensional printed heart models in a low-cost facility fulfilling the highest requirements from a technical and clinical point of view is demonstrated.
PB Frontiers
YR 2021
FD 2021-06-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/3906
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/3906
LA en
NO Gómez-Ciriza G, Gómez-Cía T, Rivas-González JA, Velasco Forte MN, Valverde I. Affordable Three-Dimensional Printed Heart Models. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021 Jun 4;8:642011
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RD Apr 7, 2025