Interact with the anatomy to reveal spatial relationships between soft and hard tissue, evaluate organ-sparing approaches, and protect critical anatomy when resecting solid tumors.
Hospitals
Advanced 3D Planning for Life-Changing Care
Go beyond visualization — interact directly with the anatomy
Bring greater clarity to in-house planning with 3D surface modeling to help reduce uncertainties in the OR, support workflow efficiency, and improve patient outcomes. Achieve more with measurable insights using virtual anatomical models, 3D segmentation, extended reality (XR), and patient-specific devices.
Join over 500 hospitals establishing the new standard of care
Plan with every anatomical detail, operate with confidence
Prepare your surgical plan with a comprehensive view of the patient's anatomy. Anticipate potential challenges and make the right call under pressure with the support of 3D surface modeling.
Deliver better patient outcomes with 3D precision
Gain clarity in complex or high-risk cases through interactive, patient-specific anatomical models. Personalized, precision care can elevate outcomes, shorten operating time, and improve long-term quality of life.
From 3D plan to OR — easier, faster, smarter
Connect your team, your data, and your decisions with support from validated tools you can trust. Integrated solutions streamline the transition into the OR and enhance collaboration across teams.
Stay in control by planning in-house
Seamlessly integrate 3D surgical planning into your existing workflow while maintaining full control over quality and timing. Iterate faster, collaborate in a single shared view, and adapt as cases evolve, with the flexibility to plan where and how you'd like.
Benefiting disciplines throughout your hospital
Achieve real impact with advanced 3D solutions
3D anatomical models
Create personalized 3D models from medical imaging for surgical planning and device design. With both interactive virtual views and tactile visualization via printed models, you'll enhance communication with your team and patients.
Extended reality
Display patient anatomy in immersive extended reality for interactive surgical planning. Enhance spatial understanding and decision‑making by viewing anatomical data in 3D and planning the operation in a true‑to‑scale environment.
Virtual surgical planning
Create digital surgical plans in-house for validation before your team enters the OR. Virtual case planning helps you anticipate challenges early and minimize intraoperative surprises.
Patient-specific devices
Design patient-specific surgical guides and other medical devices based on high-fidelity 3D models. Combine the optimal fit and function for your patient while enhancing surgical precision.
Virtual testing with FEA and CFD
Prepare patient-specific devices and models for FEA and CFD simulation to predict mechanical behavior and fluid interaction.
3D anatomical models
Create personalized 3D models from medical imaging for surgical planning and device design. With both interactive virtual views and tactile visualization via printed models, you'll enhance communication with your team and patients.
Extended reality
Display patient anatomy in immersive extended reality for interactive surgical planning. Enhance spatial understanding and decision‑making by viewing anatomical data in 3D and planning the operation in a true‑to‑scale environment.
Virtual surgical planning
Create digital surgical plans in-house for validation before your team enters the OR. Virtual case planning helps you anticipate challenges early and minimize intraoperative surprises.
Patient-specific devices
Design patient-specific surgical guides and other medical devices based on high-fidelity 3D models. Combine the optimal fit and function for your patient while enhancing surgical precision.
Virtual testing with FEA and CFD
Prepare patient-specific devices and models for FEA and CFD simulation to predict mechanical behavior and fluid interaction.
Explore the Materialise Mimics platform
Join users of our software and services who help more than 60,000 patients every year and, to date, have analyzed over 6 million patient scans and designed more than 600,000 patient‑specific guides and implants.
Discover the capabilities in Mimics that make personalized, precise care possible — from image transfer to treatment.
Clinical evidence
Results show that 3D surface modeling in Mimics is better for dimensional and geometric accuracy in 3D reconstruction
Comparison of Three 3D Segmentation Software Tools for Hip Surgical Planning (2022)
Volume rendering does not permit proper interaction with the image, being a projected visualization instead of an object
Exploring the Potential of Three-Dimensional Imaging, Printing, and Modeling in Pediatric Surgical Oncology: A New Era of Precision Surgery (2023)
Planning and training with 3D-printed models seem to enhance physicians' confidence and performance levels by up to 40%
Systematic Review on the Use of 3D-Printed Models for Planning, Training and Simulation in Vascular Surgery (2024)
Preoperative 3D reconstruction of the imaging results could help reduce the unknown risks during surgery caused by anatomical abnormalities and improve the perioperative safety for patients
Using Materialise's interactive medical image control system to reconstruct a model of a patient with rectal cancer and situs inversus totalis: A case report (2020)
3D models for preoperative planning have been reported to increase the selective clamping rate and reduce the opening of the collecting system, blood loss, and loss of renal function.
Systematic Review of Comparative Studies of 3D Models for Preoperative Planning in Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy (2022)
3D post-processing algorithms provides a very accurate image of the mitral valve structure, useful for the precise, non-invasive assessment of mitral valve size and structure.
Three-dimensional cardiac computed tomography compared with autopsied material for the assessment of the mitral valve (2022)
3D planning is a reliable asset in an operating environment that allows no margin for error.
Urologist, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
3D planning for us in congenital heart disease has been a game-changer. It’s helped us communicate with our colleagues. It’s helped them realize what they have to do beforehand, to plan, to simulate. And, overall, I think this enhances the care that we give to our patients. It’s made things smoother, better, and quicker.
Radiologist, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital
The future of healthcare is personalized. With 3D technologies, we’re not just improving surgeries — we’re reimagining what’s possible for patients.
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Computational 3D Visualization Program, Boston Children's Hospital
We’ve received various requests from oncovascular surgeons for help with complex cases in the abdomen. 3D printing can be especially expensive for these applications because surgeons want larger, multi-color models to view all the anatomy in detail. Using AR instead could offer a cheaper, more comprehensive alternative that allows them to visualize the anatomy in different variations, for example, with or without the arteries or veins.
Biomedical Enginer, eDIMES Lab, University of Bologna
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