Medical phantoms and model aids are expensive and laborious to produce. As ready-mades, their uses are modally constrained and their properties inflexible. Using open-source 3D printing, experimental materials, and streamlined data conversion workflows, a proof of concept is presented to address market needs: Revenants are fully customizable anthropomorphic medical models that are derived from real patient scan data, are produced rapidly and inexpensively, and have the potential to function across diagnostic modalities with relevance to many preclinical and clinical contexts, including quality assurance, training, and treatment delivery. The prototypes demonstrate promising features analogous to hard and soft tissues found in human long bones.
Revenant is a Major Research Project undertaken as part of Gregory Phillips' Master of Digital Media degree at Ryerson Univesity. A summary presentation of the project is available for download as a PDF. Please contact the author for the accompanying project paper.
