Capabilities

“3D+” refers to a suite of advanced technologies housed within CA3D+. These include:

3D Printing

To date, CA3D+ has access to 32 3D printers on which we produce medical models. Our printers span the range of plastic 3D print technologies, from low-cost desktop printers to high-end printers that can print an immense array of color and hardness combinations. The use of these technologically advanced printers allows us to create 3D models that mimic hardness from as soft as skin to as rigid as bone. Our printers are all in-house, which allows rapid prototyping and fast turn-around. We also have access to high-end, medical-grade metal 3D printers capable of printing with a variety of metals for medical applications.

3D Printed Heart

Patient with complex congenital heart disease.

3D Printed orthopedic model

Patient with a large tumor.

3D print of a fetus with a large tumor (green)

High risk EXIT procedure.

 

UCSF 3D PRINTERS

UCSF has installed 32 3D printers across its enterprise.
FDM, SLA, DLP, PolyJet, Binder Jetting, SLS, MJF...

 
Sites with CA3D+ Printers
  1. UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights
  2. UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and Byers Hall
  3. Mission Bay VA (Owens St.)
  4. VA Health Center
  5. UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
Other CA3D+ Hardware
  1. Three clinical workstations with 6-8 Core Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia Quadro P4000 SLI video cards, 32GB RAM
  2. Two CA3D+ laptops for AR/VR
Other CA3D+ Software
  1. Materialise Mimics Medical
  2. Materialise Mimics InPrint
  3. 3D Systems DICOM to Print (D2P)
  4. 3D Systems Geomagic Freeform

 

Virtual Surgical Planning and Advanced Visualization Systems

We use advanced imaging and cutting-edge display systems for medical modeling and virtual surgical planning. These systems span the spectrum of “extended reality” display systems, including mixed, augmented and virtual reality displays. Similar to our suite of 3D printers, our digital display systems span the spectrum of complexity. These include accessible iPad-based augmented reality (AR) viewing systems, immersive virtual reality (VR) and intraoperative mixed-reality (MR) display. UCSF is currently just one of two centers worldwide to utilize the intra-operative Echopixel mixed reality system. This FDA-cleared system allows our surgeons to manipulate complex 3D reconstructions during live surgery without the use of cumbersome glasses and without breaking the sterile scrub environment.

Intraoperative Echopixel case

Dr’s Reddy and Anwar using intraoperative holography in complex cardiac procedures.

Virtual Surgical planning for complex facial fractures

Augmented Reality using the Sira app

Sira app, created by Dr. Jesse Courtier.

 

  

One of our models in the Materialise Mimics Viewer interface.

 

Check out one of our models hosted on MedReality with this QR code!

 

3D Scanning

Through our partnerships with the Department of Anatomy, we have access to high-end handheld 3D scanners; these scanners allow us to scan anatomy for medical modeling when surface scanning is required. 

3D Scanning of cardiac pathology specimens to create a digital pathology library

Advanced Analysis Technologies

Circle CVI42 (cardiac MRI analysis, 4D flow, strain)

EchoPAC (advanced echocardiography, 3D echo, strain)