Let's start out with something fun! These images show FFF and SLA #3dprinting printouts of a high-resolution T1 #mri scan of my brain. I created them using some basic neuroimaging software, 3D modeling software, and my scan data. Some research labs make such prints as gifts for their #neuroimaging study participants. I already had my data from trial runs of our studies.

The (somewhat transparent) model was done on an SLA (resin) printer at about 40% actual size. I'm planning to do a life-size print eventually, but the printer is too small to hold my brain, so I'll need to print one hemisphere at a time and do some hand tool work.

The other two prints were done on an FFF 3d printer at life-size scale using glow-in-the-dark filament (a real kick at halloween to decorate with glowing models of your own brain).

I teach a technology innovation course for first-year business students and I love taking these models in after talking to them about 3D manufacturing and its applications (particularly in medicine). It is also fun to show students my T1 and fMRI data and say "here's proof your professor has a brain!"

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