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Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease

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In this chapter, an overview of additive manufacturing and the major 3D printing technologies is presented. The technologies covered include FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling), ColorJet (powder-inkjet based), SLS (Selective Laser Sintering), SLA (Stereolithography), DLP-SLA, and MultiJet/PolyJet (photopolymer-inkjet based). A technical overview, material options, costs, benefits and limitations are presented for each, followed by considerations for deciding on which printer to utilize for various applications in cardiac disease modeling.

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    It is worth pointing out that, while the elastic moduli of many tissues in the body range from kPa in magnitude to MPa, materials currently available for 3D printing—both FDM and otherwise—typically range from a few dozen MPa to several GPa in elastic modulus. As a result, the average 3D printed part, even in the softest available material, can be about 100–1000 times more rigid than the tissue or organs being studied. For this reason, it is not currently practical to expect a 3D printed model of a soft-tissue organ to accurately mimic the mechanical properties of the organ. Models consisting of several different materials with different material properties can be printed for illustrative purposes, but a truly meaningful mechanical characterization will not be possible.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Institute of Technology, New York, NY, USA

    Peter Backeris ME

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New York, NY, USA

    Joseph Borrello BE

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Kanwal Majeed Farooqi

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Borrello, J., Backeris, P. (2017). Rapid Prototyping Technologies. In: Farooqi, K. (eds) Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53523-4_5

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