Three-dimensional lithographic model building from volume data sets.
Computed tomographic images of a dry human skull and an in-situ knee joint were used to construct solid three-dimensional polymer models using stereolithographic techniques that have been introduced recently into the manufacturing industry. The stereolithographic technique makes use of a computer-steered narrow laser beam to solidify the model within a bath of liquid photocurable polymer. The method does not suffer from the cutting-tool size and path constraints encountered in the more commonly used process of machining the models from a solid block of foam.
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Medical Physics Department, Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, Winnipeg.
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D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D007719:Knee Joint; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D011108:Polymers; D012886:Skull; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D011108:Polymers