Main description:

Additive Manufacturing in Healthcare: A Practical Perspective offers practitioners the "practical know-how" to enable the use of different technologies involved in additively joining materials to form tangible parts based on computer-aided design (CAD) models for both healthcare and biomedical engineering applications. Additive Manufacturing is a completely disruptive technology that is growing exponentially in medicine and dentistry. Written for practitioners in the healthcare sector who are not familiar with this new technology, this book provides an easy-to-understand workflow that covers, for example, how to move from segmentation to 3D reconstruction and even 3D printed parts of human anatomy.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Additive Manufacturing Technologies

SECTION I: Additive Manufacturing in Healthcare 3. Additive Manufacturing in Medicine: Image Processing 4. Additive Manufacturing in Medicine: Surgical Design 5. Additive Manufacturing in Digital Dentistry 6. Additive Manufacturing in VSP 7. Additive Manufacturing in Orthotics and Prosthetics 8. Tissue Engineering Related Applications in Additive Manufacturing 9. Barriers to AM Implementation in Healthcare 10. Computational Simulation in Healthcare Design for Additive Manufacturing 11. CAD-to-Part Measurements and Tools 12. Value and Value-Capture from Case Studies