Mayo Clinic 3-D models bring patient anatomy from 2-D screens to surgeons? hands

ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic?s 3-D anatomic modeling program started with a realization that surgeons needed a new way to look at human anatomy that went beyond two-dimensional images. Surgeons who were planning the separation of conjoined twins in 2008 approached the Department of Radiology about producing a 3-D model of the babies? shared liver. [...]
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