Iowa City resident Mark Ginsberg explains how 3D printers can be used to create models of human organs.
What can’t 3D printers do these days?
According to a recent article in the Iowa City Press Citizen, doctors can even use CT scans to print accurate models of human organs that help better prepare them for complex surgeries.
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Mark Ginsberg is the owner of M.C. Ginsberg Objects of Art––a jewelery store in Iowa City. But he also operates a “boutique” manufacturing facility located above the store, sporting two 3D printers and two CNC mills.
Ginsberg has partnered with University of Iowa physicians from multiple disciplines––including neurology and pediatrics––to create models for patients. Most recently he helped create a photopolymer heart.
“This way, they can hold the actual heart in their hand, the physiology of that heart, the rendering of that heart, and pregame the direction of the tools, the angle of the tools and how they’re going to attack different vessels,” he told the Iowa City Press Citizen.
Recently, the technique was used by cardiac surgeons at the University of Iowa to assist in an operation performed on a child with a hole in their heart.
Credits: Video from Iowa City Press Citizen.
