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Aims and scope
3D Printing in Medicine publishes 3D printing innovation that impact medicine. Authors can communicate and share Standard Tessellation Language (STL) and related files via the journal. In addition to publishing techniques and trials that will advance medicine with 3D printing, the journal covers "how to" papers to provide a forum for translating applied imaging science.
Application of Digital 3D Models in Medicine – Utilization of Surface Mesh Files for Digital Display, AR/VR and Virtual Surgery
Guest Editors:
Reena Maria Ghosh, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, United States of America
Submission Status: Open until 1 March 2025
Call for papers: Cloud-based medical image segmentation for 3D printing in medicine: accuracy, speed, and scalability
3D Printing in Medicine is calling for submissions to our Collection on "Cloud-based medical image segmentation for 3D printing in medicine: accuracy, speed, and scalability". With this topical collection our aim is to help surgeons improve patient outcomes, and assisting them in pre-operative planning, intraoperative visualization, surgical training and patient communications.
Articles
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Exploring CT pixel and voxel size effect on anatomic modeling in mandibular reconstruction
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Computer-aided design and 3D printing for a stable construction of segmental bone defect model in Beagles: a short term observation
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Desktop 3D printed anatomic models for minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass
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Tablet-based Augmented reality and 3D printed templates in fully guided Microtia Reconstruction: a clinical workflow
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COVID-19 and the role of 3D printing in medicine
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DICOM segmentation and STL creation for 3D printing: a process and software package comparison for osseous anatomy
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3D printing in medicine of congenital heart diseases
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Additively manufactured medical products – the FDA perspective
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Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 3D printing Special Interest Group (SIG): guidelines for medical 3D printing and appropriateness for clinical scenarios
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Featured Article: Generative AI for medical 3D printing: a comparison of ChatGPT outputs to reference standard education
It is written by multiple colleagues from many institutions University of Cincinnati College of Medicine University of Toronto. The University of Texas at Arlington
This work explores the role of natural language AI models in 3D Printing.
In particular, ChatGPT can improve inter-professional collaboration and 3D printing education for researchers; I do believe that it is the first article of its kind in the 3D printing space.
In addition, there are two other aspects of the work that will be valuable to the readership.
1. At this point, there is not much novel comparing ChatGPT versus a medical reference standard. However, for 3D printing the reference standard for medical education itself is thin. Thus we can use ChatGPT to see the ‘state of the art’ of the educational material for 3D printing. I believe this concept is valuable as the educational landscape continures to evolve, even with the inherent limitations of ChatGPT.
2. While I have read several articles (see the references to the paper) that talks about the fabrication/hallucinations that ChatGPT creates. However, if you are seeking the medical literature, please see this trick (see the Figure I uploaded) to simply ask ChatGPT to generate the Boolean search for PubMed. For us, this was quite successful as noted in the article.
Article collections
Desktop Vat Polymerization (Stereolithography)
Guest editor: Dr Prashanth Ravi
Advanced Image Segmentation and Modeling
Guest editor: Dr Nicole Wake
Recent blogs
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How 3D printing can help veterinarians with surgical planning for dogs
13 September 2022
Indexing
We are pleased to announce that all articles published in 3D Printing in Medicine are included in PubMed and PubMed Central. The PubMed entry can be found here.
3D Printing in Medicine is also indexed in the following services: CNKI; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA; DOAJ; Dimensions; EBSCO Discovery Service; El Compendex; EMBASE; Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Gale; Google Scholar; Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China; Naver; OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service; ProQuest-ExLibris Primo; ProQuest-ExLibris Summon; Sematic Scholar; TD Net Discovery Service; and WTI Frankfurt eG.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 3.2
5-year Journal Impact Factor: N/A
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): N/A
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): N/ASpeed 2023
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 13
Submission to acceptance (median days): 62Usage 2023
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Altmetric mentions: 175
- ISSN: 2365-6271 (electronic)