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3D Printing

Dr Margaret Saunders collaborated on projects relating to 3D printing:

Feasibility of using 3D printing to visualise post-infarct ventricular septal defects

The aim of the project was to develop a method to segment image data from CT coronary angiography and create a 3D print of ventricular septal defects (VSD), assess the accuracy of the process and any limitations in using it as a service review of VSD closures.

Development of a 3D printed subresolution sandwich phantom for the simulation of HMPAO SPECT images

The aim of the project was to develop a subresolution phantom to simulate realistic uptake patterns of HMPAO on Single Positron Emission Computerised Tomography (SPECT) images across different SPECT scanners and hospitals to validate SPECT brain analysis routinely used in dementia assessment.

Publications

  1. Negus IS et al. (2016) Technical Note: Development of a 3D printed subresolution sandwich phantom for validation of brain SPECT analysis.  Medical Physics 43(9): 5020
  2. Holmes RB et al. (2014) PET imaging standardisation using novel 3D-printed brain phantoms. Alzheimer's and Dementia 10(4): P110
  3. Holmes RB, Jordan K, Negus IS, Thorne G, and Saunders M (2013) Creation and Assessment of a 3D-Printed Subresolution Sandwich Phantom for the Simulation of HMPAO SPECT Images. EJNMMI 40, Suppl.2 OP408
  4. Negus IS, Jordan K, Holmes RB, Thorne G, and Saunders M (2013) Development of a 3D-Printed Subresolution Sandwich Phantom for the Simulation of HMPAO SPECT Images. Medical Physics Int. J. 1(2): 576