THE APPLICATION OF RAPID PROTOTYPING (RP) IN THE MEDICAL AREA: PROCESS AND CLINICAL BENEFITS Rogério Gondak e Maurício Gondak
Resumo: The application of computation and manufacturing methods on diagnosis and
treatment of complex surgical cases are, sometimes, decisive for clinical success. The use of Rapid
Prototyping (RP) in medical area has allowed to obtain tridimensional models that represent the
exact anatomic structure of the patient. The main systems are: Stereolithography (SL), Selective
Laser Sintering (SLS) and Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). Surgeons are using biomodels to
plan surgeries, diagnose diseases and simulate surgeries. The aim this work is describe the main
systems and show their benefits in clinical cases.
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