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Anatomy Education at its Best: Printing and Painting Replicas of Donor Hearts

Julie Maes
April 12, 2016
Anatomy Education at its Best: Printing and Painting Replicas of Donor Hearts

What do donor hearts and 3D Printing have in common? The answer to this is the University of Minnesota’s Visible Heart® Lab. Not content with simply teaching their students with 2D images, the team at the lab has moved their academic approach to a whole new level: 3D models of real human hearts. Imagine being able to train as a surgeon with a complete, tangible heart model, as opposed to learning off paper! And imagine acquiring the skills to make 3D models for any operation you might perform throughout your career? Here’s how Materialise enables the Visible Heart Lab’s unique approach to teaching, education and research.

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How 3D Models of Woodpecker Anatomy Can Further Anti-Shock Device Design

Sandrine Debecker
April 08, 2016
How 3D Models of Woodpecker Anatomy Can Further Anti-Shock Device Design

Designing structures and devices that protect the human body from shocks and vibrations during high-velocity impacts is a universal challenge. Scientists and engineers focusing on this challenge try to understand and replicate or improve on anti-shock mechanisms found in nature. The woodpecker stands out in this field of study: it can peck trees at high frequency (up to 25 Hz) and high speed (up to 7 m/s and 1200 g deceleration) without suffering any brain injury. So how can woodpecker anatomy help improve anti-shock devices?

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Raising the Bar for Vehicle Safety with the Development of Parametric Models

Alex M
April 04, 2016
Raising the Bar for Vehicle Safety with the Development of Parametric Models

There are many hypotheses about the effects of human characteristics on injuries, and they can be assessed more accurately through the use of a parametric human finite element (FE) model. This model can be morphed automatically into other models to represent a diverse population. Dr. Jingwen Hu and his team at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, USA have managed to develop this very same parametric model, and have given it the ability to predict injuries and represent different human anatomies. Dr. Hu won the first prize for the “Best Article Award: North & South America” of the Mimics Innovation Awards in 2015.

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Novel Insights About Dissecting Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Mice

Alex M
March 29, 2016
Novel Insights About Dissecting Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Mice

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) occur in 5 to 9% of the population over the age of 65 years and transmural aneurysm rupture is the 10th most common cause of death in the industrialized world. Dr. Bram Trachet, post-doctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, explores novel high-resolution imaging techniques as well as image-guided histology to visualize experimental aneurysms in laboratory animals. In 2015, he won a Mimics Innovation Award for his research on the morphology of abdominal aortic aneurysms in mice infused with angiotensin II. The essence of his paper will be presented in this blog post.

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Mimics Innovation Award Winner Uses 3D Modeling to Increase Car Safety

Stephanie Benoit
March 25, 2016
Mimics Innovation Award Winner Uses 3D Modeling to Increase Car Safety

As the winner of the first prize for the “Best Article Award: North & South America” of the Mimics Innovation Awards in 2015, Dr. Jingwen Hu’s paper has the potential to contribute significantly to automobile safety.

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Shedding a New Light on the Origin of Brain Folds

Liesbeth Kemel
March 24, 2016
Shedding a New Light on the Origin of Brain Folds

A research team led by Tuomas Tallinen (Department of Physics and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyvaskyla), Jun Young Chung and Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University) is studying the folded structure of the human brain. Their findings published in Nature Physics indicate that the convoluted structure can be attributed to mechanical compression. A 3D-printed model was used by the researchers to support their theory.

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Behind the Scenes: The Workflow of the Engineer Who Recreated Ötzi in 3D

Stephanie Benoit
February 25, 2016
Behind the Scenes: The Workflow of the Engineer Who Recreated Ötzi in 3D

After years of lobbying, the DNA Learning Center in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, finally gained permission to recreate the world’s only 3D copy of Ötzi, the mummified ‘Iceman’ discovered in the Tyrolean Alps by a pair of hikers in 1991. Renowned paleo artist Gary Staab reached out to Materialise to make the project a reality, and worked closely with Eric Renteria, our very own application engineer. Here is a detailed report of how he recreated a life-sized model of the world-famous Iceman.

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The Iceman Cometh: Ötzi Reborn on a 3D Printer

Radhika Dhuru
February 18, 2016
The Iceman Cometh: Ötzi Reborn on a 3D Printer

Five thousand years after he was murdered on a Tyrolean Alpine peak, Ötzi rose from liquid resin on a Mammoth stereolithography 3D printer at Materialise — or rather, his 3D-printed twin did. An interdisciplinary team, comprising scientists, archeologists and historians, turned to Materialise to create the first 3D-printed replica of Ötzi’s mummified body in aid of research. Watch the whole process of 3D printing a mummy here!

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Disease Modeling: In-Vivo Aneurysm Analysis in 3D

Liesbeth Kemel
January 25, 2016
Disease Modeling: In-Vivo Aneurysm Analysis in 3D

An interesting application of 3D Printing & visualization software is disease modeling. For example, the development of aortic aneurysms, life-threatening dilations of the aorta, is affected by a wide range of environmental and genetic factors. Therefore, aortic aneurysms are difficult to study clinically and experimentally. A team of researchers at the University of Rochester, New York, including Dr. Ankur Chandra, Associate Professor of surgery and biomedical engineering and a practicing vascular surgeon himself, took the challenge.

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Mimics Helps Investigate Middle Pleistocene Murder

Radhika Dhuru
September 29, 2015
Mimics Helps Investigate Middle Pleistocene Murder

How ancient is the act of murder? Thanks to a recently-discovered skull in Spain, we know it’s at least 430,000 years old. Materialise software Mimics Innovation Suite, used by researchers at the Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, is helping uncover one of the oldest crime mysteries in human history: what killed the young adult now known to us as specimen Cr-17?

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