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2016-02-01
Touch the future – 3D foetus print
Thanks to a high-tech ultrasonography camera used by the Provincial Hospital and the most modern 3D printer in Poland which belongs to the KTP we have managed to print a unique three-dimensional model of the foetus.
The model will have a range of applications from the most important scientific and educational to the commemorative. What is more, doctors operating on children will be able to use the prints. The models will allow not only for precise planning of treatment but also for proper therapy preparation. Doctors will be able to explain to parents the nature of the disease of their child and how the operation will proceed. Future mothers will be able to touch the model of their child before birth.
- The model of the foetus in the format of a three-dimensional print will provide extra sensory feelings not only to blind patients and women with a profound visual impairment that could not see the ultrasound pictures but also to healthy pregnant patients, explains Wojciech Rokita, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Provincial Hospital.
He further adds that such a possibility is of great emotional significance for pregnant women. He is of the opinion that prints will fulfil an important role in the education of medical students. They will be able to carefully review the models of healthy foetuses and compare them with those which, unfortunately, have all sorts of disadvantages. They will be able to see the exact effects posed by various diseases of the foetus.
Doctors emphasize that thanks to the new solution lectures for future doctors will gain a new dimension. The 3D model of the foetus is printed on the basis of pictures taken by Ultrasound Voluson E10 camera owned by the provincial Hospital. The device can detect defects in the child's heart and other structures from the 12th to the 14th week of pregnancy. Thanks to the purchase of the equipment the first Laboratory of Prenatal Diagnosis and Echocardiography in the Świętokrzyskie Region has been opened.
- Doctors working in the clinic have received training in leading centres in Europe. Pictures taken by our camera are very precise, emphasizes Daniel Wolder of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Three-dimensional prints of several models of the healthy foetus and abnormalities in the structure of the foetus have been created in cooperation with the IT Company Neurosoft of Wroclaw and the Kielce Technology Park. Wojciech Lubawski, the mayor of Kielce, stresses that the municipality of Kielce has been supporting the development in field of medicine for many years. These activities include, among others, conducting prevention programs such as vaccinations for infants, seniors and teenagers.
- We have good hospitals in Kielce which need technological support that we offer. We will support the development of medicine in Kielce, said Wojciech Lubawski. Good cooperation with the Provincial Hospital was also mentioned by the director of the Kielce Technology Park.
- We are very happy to cooperate with specialists from the Provincial Hospital. The equipment of the 3D Printing Centre can be used in many fields and medicine is one of them , says Szymon Mazurkiewicz, director of the KTP. The future mothers we will be able to print a model of their child’s face from an ultrasound photograph taken at the Provincial Hospital.
The 3D Printing Centre of the Kielce Technology Park is equipped with the Systems - ProX 500 Plus Printer. This is the first in Poland printer of such a high class and a wide range of applications. The material used in printing is a very durable plastic resistant to deformation. The final product is a high quality and accuracy sustainable thermoplastic model with excellent mechanical properties. The equipment used by the KTP which meets the standards for the printing of medical products. The Printing Centre’s offer is addressed to entities related to medicine, industry, plastics, automotive industry, electronics, industrial design, architecture, food industry, aeronautics, astronautics and defence industry.
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