{"id":17437,"date":"2015-09-17T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/system-can-convert-mri-heart-scans-into-3d-printed-physical-models-in-a-few-hours"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:23:20","slug":"system-can-convert-mri-heart-scans-into-3d-printed-physical-models-in-a-few-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/system-can-convert-mri-heart-scans-into-3d-printed-physical-models-in-a-few-hours","title":{"rendered":"System can convert MRI heart scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/system-can-convert-mri-heart-scans-into-3d-printed-physical-models-in-a-few-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT and Boston Children\u2019s Hospital have developed a system that can take MRI scans of a patient\u2019s heart and, in a matter of hours, convert them into a tangible, physical model that surgeons can use to plan surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The models could provide a more intuitive way for surgeons to assess and prepare for the anatomical idiosyncrasies of individual patients. \u201cOur collaborators are convinced that this will make a difference,\u201d says Polina Golland, a professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"textTag\">electrical engineering<\/a> and computer science at MIT, who led the project. \u201cThe phrase I heard is that \u2018surgeons see with their hands,\u2019 that the perception is in the touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This fall, seven cardiac surgeons at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital will participate in a study intended to evaluate the models\u2019 usefulness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-09-mri-heart-scans-3d-printed-physical.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT and Boston Children\u2019s Hospital have developed a system that can take MRI scans of a patient\u2019s heart and, in a matter of hours, convert them into a tangible, physical model that surgeons can use to plan surgery. The models could provide a more intuitive way for surgeons to assess and prepare for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69539,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437\/revisions\/69539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}