Three-dimensional printing for device selection in cardiology: Several key points should not be neglected
Department of Cardiology, Zhengzhou University People's Hospital (Henan Provincial People's Hospital), Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Anatomy and Physiology, Cardiology, Clinical Trials, Radiology and Medical Imaging
- Keywords
- device selection, three-dimensional printing, preoperative evaluation
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- © 2016 Luo et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Three-dimensional printing for device selection in cardiology: Several key points should not be neglected. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2597v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2597v1
Abstract
We comment on the recent developments and problems of three-dimensional printing in cardiology. Since there are currently no standards or consensuses for 3D printing in clinical medicine and the technology is at its infancy in cardiology, it’s very important to detail the procedures to allow more similar studies to further our understandings of this novel technology. Most studies have employed computed tomography to obtain source data for 3D printing, the use of real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography for data acquisition remains rare, so it would be very valuable and inspiring to detail the image postprocessing steps, or the reliability of the study results will be doubtful.
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