Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2019.1909S12T03

Printed Anatomy for Planning, Training, and Phantoms for Quality Assurance

An endovascular simulator based on exchangeable 3D-printed real vascular pathologies as alternative to the use of animals

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Mark Kaschwich (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany), Florian Matysiak (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany), Juljan Bouchagiar (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany), Annika Dell (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany), Andreas Bayer (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany), Marco Horn (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany), Markus Kleemann (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany)

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Abstract

The increasing importance of endovascular surgery requires the development of authentic simulation environments to test new endovascular devices and navigation systems. Purpose of this project was the development of a simulator that mimics endovascular procedures as realistic as possible to minimize the use of animal models. Using the technique of rapid prototyping we developed an endovascular simulator with exchangeable 3D-printed real vascular pathologies. The technique of 3D-printing opened the door to produce endovascular simulators with authentic vascular pathologies. This can reduce the use of animals for research purposes.

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Kaschwich, M., Matysiak, F., Bouchagiar, J., Dell, A., Bayer, A., Horn, M., & Kleemann, M. (2019). An endovascular simulator based on exchangeable 3D-printed real vascular pathologies as alternative to the use of animals. Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2019.1909S12T03