In desperate need to fix a young girl's heart, a team of cardiovascular surgeons at Miami Children's Hospital tap 3D-printing to help make the operation a success.

A 3D printed medical model of a patient's congenital heart is shown at Houston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in Houston. Dr. C.

With a 3D replica of a patient’s specific anatomy and resultant physiology, physicians are able to make more informed decisions and precise planning prior to cutting the patient open. In this specific ...

Dr. Sujatha Buddhe of Seattle Children’s Hospital led a team that created a set of 3D printed hearts to use with patients and their families to help them understand different heart defects ...

The process of using a human expert to segment sample patches and the algorithmic generation of a digital, 3D heart model takes about an hour. The 3D-printing process takes a couple of hours more.

With these 3D heart models, clinicians now have a noninvasive way to study their patients, helping improve patient care for cardiac arrhythmia and other heart diseases. “Clinicians want to see how ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It may sound far-fetched, but scientists are attempting to build a human heart with a 3D printer. Ultimately, the goal is to create a new heart for a patient with their own ...

Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital are using 3D printer technology to give surgeons a whole new look into and feel of the human heart.

Associate professor Linwei Wang is leading an international group of researchers and clinicians developing computational systems for creating individualized 3D imaging of a patient’s heart. With these ...

In the U.S., someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds, and yet researchers have not had a model that fully mimics what occurs in the human heart after a heart attack. A team of investigators at ...