Making three-dimensional echocardiography more tangible: a workflow for three-dimensional printing with echocardiographic data

Azad Mashari MD; Mario Montealegre-Gallegos MD; Ziyad Knio BS; Lu Yeh MD; Jelliffe Jeganathan MBBS; Robina Matyal MD; Kamal R Khabbaz MD; Feroze Mahmood MD

doi:10.1530/ERP-16-0036

Echo Research and Practice (Dec 2016)

Making three-dimensional echocardiography more tangible: a workflow for three-dimensional printing with echocardiographic data

Azad Mashari MD,
Mario Montealegre-Gallegos MD,
Ziyad Knio BS,
Lu Yeh MD,
Jelliffe Jeganathan MBBS,
Robina Matyal MD,
Kamal R Khabbaz MD,
Feroze Mahmood MD

Affiliations

Azad Mashari MD: Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mario Montealegre-Gallegos MD: Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ziyad Knio BS: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lu Yeh MD: Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Jelliffe Jeganathan MBBS: Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Robina Matyal MD: Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kamal R Khabbaz MD: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Feroze Mahmood MD: Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1530/ERP-16-0036
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. R57 – R64

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Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a rapidly evolving technology with several potential applications in the diagnosis and management of cardiac disease. Recently, 3D printing (i.e. rapid prototyping) derived from 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has become possible. Due to the multiple steps involved and the specific equipment required for each step, it might be difficult to start implementing echocardiography-derived 3D printing in a clinical setting. In this review, we provide an overview of this process, including its logistics and organization of tools and materials, 3D TEE image acquisition strategies, data export, format conversion, segmentation, and printing. Generation of patient-specific models of cardiac anatomy from echocardiographic data is a feasible, practical application of 3D printing technology.

Published in Echo Research and Practice

ISSN: 2055-0464 (Online)
Publisher: BMC
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://echo.biomedcentral.com/

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