Abstract
Three-Dimensional (3D) medical animations incorporated into applications are highly beneficial for clinical outreach and medical communication purposes that work towards educating the clinician and patient. Aortic aneurysms are a clinically important area to communicate with multiple audiences about various treatment options; both abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms were selected to create 3D animations and applications to educate medical professionals and patients regarding treatment options. Fenestrated endovascular aortic repair (FEVAR) and thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) are both tried and tested minimally invasive surgical methods for treating thoracic aortic aneurysms respectively. The Terumo Aortic Custom Relay Proximal Scalloped stent graft and Fenestrated Anaconda stent graft were both designed specifically for these procedures; however, it can be difficult to visually communicate to clinicians and patients in a straightforward way how these devices work. Therefore, we have developed two interactive applications that use 3D visualisation techniques to demonstrate how these aortic devices function and are implemented. The objective of these applications is to engage both clinicians and patients, therefore demonstrating that the addition of anatomically accurate 3D visualisations within an interactive interface would have a positive impact on public engagement while also ensuring that clinicians will have the best possible understanding of the potential uses of both devices, enabling them to exploit their key features to effectively broaden the treatable patient population.
Detailed anatomical modelling and animation was used to generate realistic and accurate rendered videos showcasing both products. These videos were integrated into an interactive application within a modern, professional graphic interface that allowed the user to explore all aspects of the stent device. The resulting applications were broken down into three modules: deployment, clinical performance and features. Following application development, these applications were evaluated by professionals in the field. Overall, positive feedback was received regarding the user-friendly nature of the applications and highly effective animations to showcase the products. The clinical applications and feature modules were particularly successful, while the deployment modules had a neutral response. Biomedical applications such as these show great potential for communicating the key features of medical devices and promoting discussion between clinicians and patients; further testing would need to be conducted on a larger group of participants in order to validate the learning effectiveness of the applications.
Keywords
- Abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Thoracic aortic aneurysms
- Interactive application
- 3D modelling
- Medical animation
- Medical communication
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Bakalchuk, S., Walker, C., Daly, C., Hill, L., Poyade, M. (2022). Creating Interactive Three-Dimensional Applications to Visualise Novel Stent Grafts That Aid in the Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms. In: Rea, P.M. (eds) Biomedical Visualisation. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1356. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87779-8_1
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