Alongside the shift in healthcare toward personalised medicine, 3D print technology has emerged as an invaluable tool for academic medical centres, hospitals, and medical device manufacturers to create patient-specific anatomical models.
These models have fueled unprecedented research, training and education, pre-surgical planning, manufacturing custom-made medical devices, and testing novel devices before in-vivo trials.
But to date, traditional modelling methods and legacy print technologies have limited the degree to which models can accurately replicate the biomechanical properties of organic tissue.
In 2022, a team of researchers at the Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics Labouratory of the Politecnico di Torino sought to create a multi-material model that mimics the mechanical behavior of specialized soft tissues such as tendons and ligaments - with the help of the Digital Anatomy™ Printer, powered by PolyJetTM technology.
To learn more about the study results download the white paper.
