Introduction Three-dimensional (3D) printing in medicine has gained increasing popularity over the past several years. In nuclear medicine and radiation therapy, where one of the main goals is to obtain…
Introduction Three-dimensional (3D) printing, also known as additive manufacturing or rapid prototyping, originated in the 1980s and encompasses various processes that create physical 3D objects by fabricating them layer by…
Introduction Looking back on the previous 30 years of progress in medical three-dimensional (3D) printing, it is astounding to consider just how far the field has come, with radiology playing…
Introduction The process of creating a physical three-dimensional (3D) printed model from medical imaging data is complicated and involves numerous steps. In order for a patient-specific anatomic model to be…
Quality Assurance (QA), defined as the maintenance of a desired level of quality in a service or a product, is a subset of the quality management system (QMS) and provides…
Introduction The United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has overseen medical device marketing in the US since May 28, 1976, when the Medical Device Amendments to the Federal…
Introduction In medical imaging, a three-dimensional (3D) image, or volume, is often acquired by stacking up a series of two-dimensional (2D) slice images. Just as 2D images are made up…
Introduction Three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies are now entering their fourth decade of use and many medical applications now are very well established and optimized. Despite this, many in the medical…
Ultrasound In ultrasound imaging, a short burst of mechanical energy created by a transducer is introduced into the body through contact with the skin. The resulting ultrasound pulse travels at…
Computed Tomography Computed tomography (CT) has experienced enormous growth in clinical use over the past three decades (Fig. 10-1) primarily due to significant advances in image quality and a dramatic…
