Cloud-Based Service Converts DICOM Data to Realistic Models

A new cloud-based, easy-to-use, cost-effective service allows medical professionals to rapidly create, view, share, and three-dimensional (3D)-print full-color 3D anatomic models directly from Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) data.

Bespoke Modeling, developed by 3D Systems (Rock Hill, SC, USA), gives clinicians the ability to diagnose and communicate more effectively, simplify medical imaging, improve medical instruction, and it enables smoother patient referrals. Subscriptions to the cloud-based application start at USD 30 per month and deliver extraordinary access to advanced technology in a very easy-to-use way with immediate availability.

Bespoke Modeling makes it easy to view patient-specific 3D data, bookmark views, add annotations, explore specific anatomic structures, and then order color 3D-cloud printed models or print on-site. 3D-printed models can also be used in a teaching environment mimicking realistic, bone-like properties when sawed and drilled.

“The sensory feedback experienced using Bespoke Modeling 3D prints is nearly identical to operating on a real bone,” said Dr. Bernard Cannas, founder of Sapo Implant (Paris, France), a physician training company that tested Bespoke Modeling for its implantology courses. “We can now use many more models during our training course providing greater hands-on training than we ever could with cadaver bone.”

“We use 3D-printed models in our educational exercises whenever possible,” commented Dr. W. Paul Brown, a consulting associate professor at Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA). “The ability to manipulate a 3D, digital anatomical model on a computer in Bespoke Modeling and at the same time hold and manipulate a 3D print of the same structure is a unique and useful teaching tool.”

Bespoke Modeling is compatible with prevalent web browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple, Safari, and Mozilla, Firefox. It is also available on iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.

3D Systems is a provider of 3D content-to-print solutions including 3D printers, print materials and on-demand custom parts services for professionals and consumers alike with materials ranging from thermoplastics, metals, ceramics and edible sugar. Its integrated solutions replace and complement conventional techniques and reduce the time and cost of designing new products by printing real parts directly from digital input. These systems are used to rapidly design, create, communicate, prototype or produce real parts, empowering customers to manufacture the future.

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