RESECTIVE EPILEPSY SURGERY BRAIN SIMULATOR

The present disclosure provides a resective epilepsy surgery simulator that incorporates biocompatible, dissectible materials as well as the surgical anatomy cues that would support the acquisition of the required technical skill set to ultimately broach the gap in surgical care for patients living...

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Hauptverfasser:	Thiong'o, Grace M, Drake, James M
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING DIAGNOSIS HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE IDENTIFICATION MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE PERFORMING OPERATIONS SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS SURGERY TRANSPORTING WORKING OF PLASTICS WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL
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Zusammenfassung:	The present disclosure provides a resective epilepsy surgery simulator that incorporates biocompatible, dissectible materials as well as the surgical anatomy cues that would support the acquisition of the required technical skill set to ultimately broach the gap in surgical care for patients living with epilepsy. The simulator is produced by imaging a patient's brain and performing computer aided design to select the gray and white matter layers of the brain, the brain blood vessels, and the skull based on the imaging of the patient's brain and storing them in computer aided design files. These files are converted into a format readable by a 3D printer and programming the 3D printer to print the patient's brain simulator from the computer aided design files with the 3D printer containing multiple print-heads that extrude liquid polymer one multi-material layer at a time to produce a simulator of the patient's skull and brain.