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3D Printing of Preclinical X-ray Computed Tomographic Data Sets
Published on: March 22, 2013
RadioGraphics Update: Medical 3D Printing for the Radiologist
Dimitrios Mitsouras1, Peter C Liacouras1, Nicole Wake1
1From the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif (D.M.); Radiology Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif (D.M.); Department of Radiology: 3D Medical Applications Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md (P.C.L.); Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY (N.W.); Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY (N.W.); and Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 234 Goodman St, Cincinnati, OH 45219 (F.J.R.).
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