Baby's Skull Rebuilt With Help From A 3D Printer

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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[blindseer]

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 a

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[iggymanz]

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

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[dbIII]

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 tha

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[iggymanz]

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.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm building a 3d printer largely out of baby skulls.

What do you want from Life

[coastwalker]

What do you want from life? A baby's arm holding an apple.

At last I can realise my ambition!

Omission in story

[SciFurz]

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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[AndyKron]

I tried printing mine in sections, but ran out of filament.

yes

[AndyKron]

Practice makes perfect.

Re: A baby Vincent?

[hackwrench]

A baby whose name is Vincent. How is this difficult?

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[hackwrench]

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".

Re: Idiot

[hackwrench]

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

Someday it will be VR

[djinn6]

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.