Voxel Printing Anatomy: Design and Fabrication of Realistic, Presurgical Planning Models through Bitmap PrintingNicholas M. Jacobson 1, Lawrence Smith 2, Jane Brusilovsky 1, Erik Carrera 1, Hayden McClain 1, Robert MacCurdy 2
1Inworks Innovation Initiative, University of Colorado-Anschutz, 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder
This method demonstrates a voxel-based 3D printing workflow, which prints directly from medical images with exact spatial fidelity and spatial/contrast resolution. This enables the precise, graduated control of material distributions through morphologically complex, graduated materials correlated to radiodensity without loss or alteration of data.