How can I print TAC (Tomography Axial Computarized) or Echosonography in 3D model? Thanks.

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How can I print TAC (Tomography Axial Computarized) or Echosonography in 3D model?
Thanks.

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It’s not a TAC scan…it’s a CAT scan. Computerized axial tomography – not tomography axial computerized.

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Use 3D Slicer (http://www.slicer.org)to extract and model the data to .stl, then use whatever you use to tidy it up for printing. CT scan Dicom files are easy, you might find Echocardiography more tricky.

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@Kevin_Franklin Thank you body. Great.

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I wonder if you would need to first extract the portions to print.

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If you use 3D Slicer, here is a YouTube video. https://youtu.be/MKLWzD0PiIc Oh…but it might be more catscan related. It might be worth a view though. I am not sure.

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@NathanielStenzel That’s the video I used. Step by step instructions, very helpful.

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@NathanielStenzel Thanks a lot Nathaniel.

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@Julio_Irula
You’re welcome. I often recommend asking google, youtube and wikipedia when people need knowledge. Who needs school with those 3 available? hahaha

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@NathanielStenzel
when you share knowledge, that’s change.

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@Julio_Irula
Yeah. We can use all the good change we can get in this world. It makes me happy that the opensource and openhardware communities are doing so well right now as are the Instructables post and YouTube instruction counts.

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You may give Golden software Voxler tool a try. It could be useful to generate a triangulated mesh from the tomography data. Then use slicer to print the triangulated mesh.