As mentioned in the
previous articles, 3D printers have become affordable for the ordinary
individuals. People can buy easily 3D printers and/or 3D scanners to build
things that fulfill their basic need in their home.
Recently, a man, named Mike
Balzer, succeed to use the 3D technology to help treating his wife’s brain
tumor. The result is very impressive and the achievement so thrilling. He
actually succeeded to 3D model and 3D print the inside of his wife’s head in
order to inform the treatment of her condition.
Being not satisfied with
the results of the MRI that the doctor made on his wife he used an open source
program, InVesalius to generate a 3D medical image. Thus Mike observed an
important bulge in his wife head. Therefore after this result, Mike’s wife made
a second MRI and the doctor discovered a mass behind her eyes.
Mike created a 3D model of
his wife skull that was used by the surgeons when they performed the operation
to remove the tumor from her brain.
The other positive outcome
from this story is that Mike’s 3D printed skull was used by the Medical Center
of the University of Pittsburgh, which had actually performed the operation on his wife,
for teaching purposes at the medical school.
It is worth
mention it also that Mike Balzer is a co-host of a podcast, ”All Things 3D” that
covers many topics on 3D printing.
Sources
http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/10/25/3d-printing-helps-husband-seek-treatment-for-wifes-brain-tumor/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=3DPI%2BFacebook
http://svn.softwarepublico.gov.br/trac/invesalius
http://allthings3d.net/podcast/
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