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Mummies! Cheetahs! 3D Printing! Oh My!

Elizabeth Boorman
August 13, 2014
Mummies! Cheetahs! 3D Printing! Oh My!

What do mummies and cheetahs have in common? Other than being typical Halloween costumes, both have been scanned and made into 3D-printed models at the Field Museum in Chicago using Materialise’s Mimics software.

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South Africa‘s First 3D-Printed Jaw Implants

Liesbeth Kemel
August 05, 2014
South Africa‘s First 3D-Printed Jaw Implants

In South Africa’s Kimberley Hospital Complex, doctors have successfully performed the country’s first 3D-printed jaw bone implantation. Two patients suffering from facial disfigurations because of a cancer received titanium jaw implants.

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Mobelife’s 3D-Printed Implant Gives Meryl a New Hip

Elizabeth Boorman
July 29, 2014
Mobelife’s 3D-Printed Implant Gives Meryl a New Hip

Could you imagine feeling pain in your hip every day for over 35 years? Seventy-one-year old Meryl Richards knows this feeling all too well: she has lived with pain in her left hip since it was damaged in a car accident in 1977. She had already undergone six surgeries, which left her hip in an extremely fragile state, and it had gotten to the point that her left leg pushed up through her feeble hip bone, leaving her leg two inches shorter than her right counterpart. She had used crutches and sticks to help her walk for years, and thought she would soon be bound to her wheelchair for the rest of her life.

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How It All Started: Mobelife

Tim Clijmans
July 18, 2014
How It All Started: Mobelife

In October 2008 at 27-years-old, I was just finishing my PhD in biomedical engineering at KU Leuven and was looking for my next step. I had focused much of my doctorate research on patient-specific planning for cranio-maxillofacial surgery and my colleague Frederik was also finishing up his doctorate degree with a focus on patient-specific implants for orthopedics.

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Materialise’s Valentine Vanheule Wins an Award at the World Congress of Biomechanics

Jamie Milas
July 14, 2014
Materialise’s Valentine Vanheule Wins an Award at the World Congress of Biomechanics

What are the latest developments in biomechanics? Every four years, rotating among Europe, Asia and the Americas, engineers and scientists meet at the World Congress of Biomechanics to discuss some of the newest findings in research of the mechanics of all living things: from plants to animals and humans.

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3D Printing Prosthetics for Wounded Veterans

Liesbeth Kemel
July 08, 2014
3D Printing Prosthetics for Wounded Veterans

I’ve previously told you about a facial reconstruction story of a man falling off a balcony while he was on vacation. The same way that doctors in the UK were able to restore Jon’s face to the way it was before the fall, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland have been able to restore soldiers’ faces by using Mimics Innovation Suite and 3-matic for 3D Printing prosthetics and implants for soldiers wounded in IED blasts.

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RS Print Opens Offices in Beringen, Belgium

Elizabeth Boorman
June 27, 2014
RS Print Opens Offices in Beringen, Belgium

What better way to celebrate the opening of the offices of our new founded Footwear company RS Print than with a running competition?

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Reconstructing Jon’s Face after a Nearly Fatal Fall

Liesbeth Kemel
May 19, 2014
Reconstructing Jon’s Face after a Nearly Fatal Fall

One of the worst ways to spend a vacation is in an emergency room. Especially after surviving a 35-foot fall, breaking all four limbs and, worst of all, shattering your face. This is exactly what happened to 27-year old Jon Fenton when he was vacationing in Barcelona and fell face first off of his four-story high hotel balcony.

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3D Printed Insoles: Customized to Support Your Every Move

Nils Faber
May 15, 2014
3D Printed Insoles: Customized to Support Your Every Move

What’s the next “step” in 3D Printing? You don’t have to be a 3D Printing fanatic to see that tailored 3D printed products have become more common as the cost has diminished and the software has advanced. This environment has enabled our latest endeavor, RSPrint, which we founded together with RSscan (RS stands for Runner Service). Together, some of us at Materialise have worked with Jempi Wilssens, founder of RSscan, and his colleagues to develop 3D printed insoles, based on dynamic measurement footscans and customized to support your distinct gait.

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Visualizing the Human Anatomy: 500 Years Since Andreas Vesalius

Elizabeth Boorman
April 30, 2014
Visualizing the Human Anatomy: 500 Years Since Andreas Vesalius

Like many books of the Renaissance, The Fabric of the Human Body is an exceptional book in both its in-depth anatomical knowledge and its collection of beautifully sketched drawings. Andreas Vesalius, the author of this 7-volume collection, gathered such detailed and extensive insight in the human anatomy that he would soon become a revolutionary figure in the field of anatomical research.

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