Dr Mariusz Sobol from the Opole University of Technology has developed and 3D printed a phantom of the human pelvis. The invention has made it possible to simulate the patient’s body in a series of studies and analyses aimed at proposing an alternative adaptive radiotherapy procedure.

The process of printing the phantom on the 3D printer took approximately 166 hours, or a week of printer time (including bone models 108 hours and a skin shell model 58 hours).

‘3D printing technology used in medical applications offers a great deal of freedom in the design and application of the models made. The technology of incremental manufacturing with the use of computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans, as well as the wide range of available materials used in printing, gives the possibility to make 3D models tailored to a specific patient’, says deputy head of the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Computer Science of the Opole University of Technology, Dr Eng. Mariusz Sobol. 

Read more: https://wu.po.opole.pl/innowacyjne-rozwiazanie-fantom-miednicy-moze-pomoc-w-radioterapii/