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Supporting Samsonite in Setting New Standards in Luggage

In their mission to create the best travel bags the world has ever seen, Samsonite approached the innovation experts at Materialise to develop a highly detailed prototype for their latest launch.

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Patient-Specific Guides and Plates for a Double Forearm Malunion Case

This complex case, where both the ulna and radius were deformed, was treated with the help of Materialise's patient-specific guiding technology. Both deformities were corrected through patient-specific surgical guides.

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First Swedish Case using Materialise's Patient-Specific Surgical Guides and 3D Planning

In 2011, the very first Swedish surgery with Materialise patient-specific guides took place in the Sahlgrenska hospital in Götenborg. Dr. Peter Axelsson treated a young boy with limited mobility in the forearm with the newest technology. A CT scan was taken of both arms making it possible to plan the surgery in 3D.

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Helping Heal Injured Poor around the World with SIGN

SIGN Fracture Care International is dedicated to treating victims of orthopaedic injury throughout the developing world and uses the Mimics Innovation Suite to develop and conduct computerized strength tests on implants.

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Software Solutions Help Nike in Supporting Great Art

Always at the forefront of innovation, Nike’s latest launch enlisted the architectural talents of Daniel Widrig and design freedom of 3D Printing to bring the essence of the body in motion to life.

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New York Fashion Week, Materialised

New York Fashion Week 2013 has come to an end. As fashion media start sharing highlights from the runway, we take a moment to look at some of the boundary-pushing contributions made by 3D Printing.

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Delaying Total Knee Replacement Surgery with Innovative 3D Solutions

Cartilage damage can sideline even the most avid of sportspeople. After 2 years of knee pain, a doctor gets the ‘active’ back into his active lifestyle with a custom 3D Printed orthopaedic solution.

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3D Arterial Modeling: Replacing Casting by In Vivo Micro-CT

Mice are highly valuable in cardiovascular research since they offer a time-efficient model to study cardiovascular diseases. Researchers at Ghent University compared casts of sacrificed mice with 3D models obtained from live animals.

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Innovative Patient-Specific Intranasal Flow Simulations

Dr. Krause used the Mimics Innovation Suite to simulate intranasal flow, illustrating every step of the process, from the segmentation of the flow region to the surface shape reconstruction and more.

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Alphaform and e-Stage a recipe for success!

“The economic crisis has highlighted that a fast and cost-efficient conversion of CAD data into a physical model is important. For many years, Materialise has been the first choice to provide software solutions for Alphaform AG. e-Stage is server-based and implements the required principle of ‘Rapid’ perfectly.”

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Materialise Magics Saves Caterpillar Huge Amounts of Time

Joe Taylor, Team Lead at Caterpillar explains how their prototyping team managed to save 80 hours by using Materialise Magics software to analyze every part file and build platform. "Without Magics, we wouldn’t have met our deadline.”

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Innovative Methods for Aortic Aneurysm Device Testing

Medtronic uses the Mimics Innovation Suite to transform patient-specific data into accurate and realistic physical test models for their stent designs and to quantify device performance.

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