TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient-specific neurosurgical phantom: assessment of visual quality, accuracy, and scaling effects
AU - Grillo, Felipe Wilker
AU - Souza, Victor Hugo
AU - Matsuda, Renan Hiroshi
AU - Rondinoni, Carlo
AU - Pavan, Theo Zeferino
AU - Baffa, Oswaldo
AU - Machado, Helio Rubens
AU - Carneiro, Antonio Adilton Oliveira
PY - 2018/3/13
Y1 - 2018/3/13
N2 - Training in medical education depends on the availability of standardized materials that can reliably mimic the human anatomy and physiology. One alternative to using cadavers or animal bodies is to employ phantoms or mimicking devices. Styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) gels are biologically inert and present tunable properties, including mechanical properties that resemble the soft tissue. Therefore, SEBS is an alternative to develop a patient-specific phantom, that provides real visual and morphological experience during simulation-based neurosurgical training.
AB - Training in medical education depends on the availability of standardized materials that can reliably mimic the human anatomy and physiology. One alternative to using cadavers or animal bodies is to employ phantoms or mimicking devices. Styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) gels are biologically inert and present tunable properties, including mechanical properties that resemble the soft tissue. Therefore, SEBS is an alternative to develop a patient-specific phantom, that provides real visual and morphological experience during simulation-based neurosurgical training.
U2 - 10.1186/s41205-018-0025-8
DO - 10.1186/s41205-018-0025-8
M3 - Article
SN - 2365-6271
VL - 4
JO - 3D Printing in Medicine
JF - 3D Printing in Medicine
IS - 1
ER -