Inaccuracies in additive manufactured medical skull models caused by the DICOM to STL conversion process

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Huotilainen, Eero ^a   Jaanimets, Risto ^b   Valášek, Jiří ^c   Marcián, Petr ^c   Salmi, Mika ^a   Tuomi, Jukka ^a   Mäkitie, Antti ^a,d   Wolff, Jan ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Bio modelling; CBCT; DICOM; STL

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMIC MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; ERROR; GEOMETRIC ERROR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATERIALS; SKULL MODEL; STANDARD TESSELLATION LANGUAGE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MANDIBLE; MAXILLARY SINUS; NOSE CAVITY; ORBIT; SKULL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MANDIBLE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NASAL CAVITY; ORBIT; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SKULL; SOFTWARE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84902118762     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: 18784119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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