| For most doctors, it is difficult for heart patients to understand their condition because they do not have intuitive images available and interpret terminology that is obscure, but thanks to VR (Virtual Reality ) And the rapid spread of 3D printing technology, the pain may soon be eliminated. The Netherlands has developed such a tool called Heartbits that visualizes heart defects through virtual 3D models and solid 3D printing models, So that patients easily understand.  It is understood that Heartbits is a joint student team at Delft University in the Netherlands, Leiden University and Wageningen University developed using Microsoft's Hololens. Initially, it was only a team that participated in advanced prototype courses at Delft University A pure VR project, but now has a combination of 3D printing. The project started in November 2016. At that time, six members of the team started a four-week mission to develop a VR tool to show the heart in a 3D virtual model, with the heart beating first. , They want to monitor the patient's heart with the sensor and then use the real-time heart rate data they get to synchronize the VR heart animation with the real heartbeat, but this did not succeed, mainly because they faced software that they had never used before . However, the team did not abandon it, and they later changed their mind to replace the VR model with 3D printed solid models, the newest Heartbits mentioned at the beginning of the article - which created the 3D printed heart from the patient's CT scan data Model, so you can ensure accuracy. However, students still hope VR will eventually come in handy, because 3D printing models no matter how small and time-consuming to manufacture, and not every hospital has or can find a 3D printer, and VR is not so troublesome. |
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