The first 3D printed multiple sclerosis brain: Towards a 3D era in medicine

Jagannadha Avasarala, Todd Pietila
2017 F1000Research  
Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies depict disease of the human brain in 2D but the reconstruction of a patient's brain stricken with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 3D using 2D images has not been attempted. Using 3D reconstruction algorithms, we built a 3D printed patient-specific brain model to scale. It is a first of its kind model that depicts the total white matter lesion (WML) load using T2 FLAIR images in an MS patient. The patient images in Digital Imaging and
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