Baby's Skull Rebuilt With Help From A 3D Printer (newsday.com)

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Baby's Skull Rebuilt With Help From A 3D Printer (newsday.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday January 1, 2017 @03:34AM from the practicing-with-print-outs dept.

schwit1 writes: A team at Stony Brook Children's Hospital was able to use a 3-D printer to produce a replica of baby Vincent's skull, which, in turn, allowed the medical team to fully rehearse the surgery long before they stepped into the operating room. Through a collaboration with Medical Modeling in Colorado, known now as 3D Systems, Egnor and Duboys were able to virtually plan the entire surgery in advance. Duboys said images from a CT scan of baby Vincent's head were sent to the company, which then manufactured a model skull using the CT information as a template. The company also created a model of what Vincent's skull should look like after surgery.

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Just like by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 03:37 · Score: 0

Pure Genius
1. Re:Just like by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:19 · Score: 0
  
  Exactly. YAWN. Slashdead and its fake news. Maybe if they'd start posting REAL news, you know, about procedures done with machines never used before for that application. The 3D printing thing is really 2007.
2. Re:Just like by blindseer · 2017-01-01 09:22 · Score: 0
  
  Exactly, this has been common practice for a long time now. 3D printing is not as "magical" as it used to be. It's pretty mundane now, especially with small plastic objects. What would be news is larger objects, more durable objects, and/or a much cheaper process.
  What is perhaps more interesting than 3D printing are advancements in CNC milling. People can buy the Ghost Gunner now and create their own firearms from aluminum scrap. This has the potential for considerable effects on gun control laws and anything else the government might not want people to own without their knowledge. What might the government want to keep their citizens from owning? How about a record player and recordings of "unapproved" music and spoken word.
  I welcome news articles on advancements in the technology that can make the things we need to raise our standard of living. This is not one of them.
  
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3. Re:Just like by iggymanz · 2017-01-01 13:47 · Score: 1
  
  No, they can use the Ghost Gunner to make receivers for firearms. Receivers can also be made of wood. A Ghost Gunner won't make a rifled barrel for you, and is totally legal just as carving a receiver for your gun from an oak plank is.
  Really, the sound bites of the anti-gun hysterics are just silly
4. Re:Just like by dbIII · 2017-01-01 19:10 · Score: 1
  
  Really, the sound bites of the anti-gun hysterics are just silly
  Personally I think the majority of the "3D printed gun" (oh, not the gun, just the receiver - what a misdirecting loser) hype has been attention seeking that depended upon those hysterics.
  
  Hobby lathes and mills with CNC are now as cheap or cheaper than a 3D printer so you can make a real gun these days without a lot of outlay of time or cash. There used to be a huge hobby gunsmith scene that was perfectly legal. I've been out of touch on that topic for a couple of decades (I worked with some guys into historical black powder stuff) but I'd bet it's still around and that instructions on how to build decent guns are probably just as available as they used to be.
5. Re:Just like by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-02 08:06 · Score: 0
  
  So... what about YOU?
6. Re:Just like by iggymanz · 2017-01-02 13:20 · Score: 1
  
  yes they're still around, for low end plenty of attachments for drill press too for hobbyist on budget with patience and elbow grease. Street punks doing most the murders (80%) in the USA aren't spending tens of man-hours fabricating their weapons, not a criminal's past time! And terrorists are getting their AK-47 at $150-450 a piece in the world's black markets, cheaper than their smart phones!
Exactly the opposite of my project. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 03:38 · Score: 1

I'm building a 3d printer largely out of baby skulls.
Omission in story by SciFurz · 2017-01-01 03:44 · Score: 1

What they didn't say was that they had to do it all over again after they realised someone had fed the 3D modelling software a copy of the Coneheads movie

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1. Re:Omission in story by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 06:44 · Score: 0
  
  Was that... was that supposed to be funny? You're single, smelly, Asperger's, and a virgin, right?
  If you had trouble finding that funny then maybe you're the aspie.
2. Re:Omission in story by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 09:30 · Score: 0
  
  How can you feed a movie to modelling software? And a stupid 20 year old movie .... oh wait, you're unfunny not because you're autistic, but because you're old! Got it.
3. Re:Omission in story by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 10:41 · Score: 0
  
  You're trying interpret a joke literally. What is that a symptom of?
4. Re:Omission in story by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 15:48 · Score: 0
  
  An unfunny joke? I guess you're still smelly, single, and a virgin though, right?
  So let's make a survey: how may other people think that was funny?
5. Re:Omission in story by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-02 11:06 · Score: 0
  
  Not hilarious, but worth a smile and move on.
  Your need to tear someone down reeks of projection.
  So that's 1:0 to the OP.
Re:3D printer by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 03:52 · Score: 0

The thing that you were trying to fit it into was a USB port, not a 3d scanner. While the USB port is used to upload a model to print, you cannot physically insert small objects into it and expect them to print.
That said, if you're trying to get off on your printer, you should try the power port; you'll probably fit there.
Printing a "boner". by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 04:11 · Score: 0

Soon replacement bones will be 3D printed.
What do you want from Life by coastwalker · 2017-01-01 04:14 · Score: 1

What do you want from life? A baby's arm holding an apple.
At last I can realise my ambition!

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yes by AndyKron · 2017-01-01 04:40 · Score: 1

Practice makes perfect.
Cost? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 04:52 · Score: 0

What's the cost of the 3-D print?
What's a reasonable price for this sort of print-job?
How do these two questions intersect? Does the fact that the print-job is related to medicine skew this intersection?
1. Re: Cost? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:30 · Score: 0
  
  Whatever it is, it is less than the cost of performing the operation and screwing something up.
2. Re: Cost? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 06:47 · Score: 0
  
  I think this mentality is part of what makes medicine so expensive - "But think of what might happen otherwise!" ("Won't someone please think of the children?!")
  I agree it's cheaper than screwing up, but if the scan is done regardless, and it's just a matter of feeding the data into a computer and pressing "Print", and providing $3 worth of plastic spool, should it cost $50 or $5000?
Great News! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:02 · Score: 0

We'll also need a 3D printer to rebuild America's dignity after 4 years of The Donald.
1. Re:Great News! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:26 · Score: 0
  
  Rebuild dignity out of Chinese plastic. Yeah, that's a real, thought-out liberal smackdown.
  captcha: idiot
It was also rebuilt with the help of a room by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:07 · Score: 0

Surgeons used a room to rehearse the procedure.
I thought the 3D printing hype would die down finally, but no, here we go again.
A baby Vincent? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:16 · Score: 0

What is a baby Vincent? Is it some type of livestock?
captcha: nonsense
1. Re: A baby Vincent? by hackwrench · 2017-01-01 06:46 · Score: 1
  
  A baby whose name is Vincent. How is this difficult?
2. Re: A baby Vincent? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 08:03 · Score: 0
  
  People who use the term "Captcha" followed by a word or phrase they mistakenly think is funny are overwhelming likely to be pedophiles. Stay away from children please.
3. Re: A baby Vincent? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 10:47 · Score: 0
  
  It's an incredibly awkward way to write. Most "slashdotters" don't understand well how to communicate, so this sort of thing usually goes over your heads, and you become highly defensive over the matter.
4. Re: A baby Vincent? by hackwrench · 2017-01-01 15:40 · Score: 1
  
  You ARE a Slashdotter! Projection much. I don't care about your supposed awkwardness, It's a perfectly cromulent way of phrasing the statement, and concise as well. I am not "defensive"; I'm definitely in the attacking category. And I attacked the stupidity of failing to be comfortable with the phrase "baby Vincent".
5. Re: A baby Vincent? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 17:07 · Score: 0
  
  You, sir, are an IDIOT. Can you spell that? I. D. I. O. T.
  captcha: comeback
  Come get some.
Re:3D printer by AndyKron · 2017-01-01 05:22 · Score: 1

I tried printing mine in sections, but ran out of filament.
Re:3D printer by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:50 · Score: 0

That's not what your mom said.
Re:3D printer by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 05:54 · Score: 0

Did you remove your Mom's ass from the model first?
Re: 3D printer by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 06:22 · Score: 0

I'm always impressed by people who try to pour concentrated coffee into the toner ink cartridges of the laser printer next to the coffee machine and expect it to print.
Someday it will be VR by djinn6 · 2017-01-01 07:18 · Score: 1

Eventually there will be no point printing out the skull. Just put on some VR goggles and manipulate a virtual skull. I mean, they need to have a 3D mesh of the skull to print it anyways.
She... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 08:09 · Score: 0

a malformation that gave the baby’s head a triangular appearance. She...
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Are we linking to that kind of crap now?
Old News by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-01 12:00 · Score: 0

From 2013: http://www.livescience.com/41309-brain-surgeons-practice-3d-printing.htm
Although I believe UF has an in-house SLS 3D printer, rather than having to send it out to a tech company for printing.
Re: Idiot by hackwrench · 2017-01-02 06:25 · Score: 1

Unless you want to make a case for it, your insults are dull... And boring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://songmeanings.com/songs/... http://www.lyricsmania.com/not... Just because.