Regarding MRI and 3D Printing. Since most MRIs can be fully LOAD on DVD and

all you have to do is ask the MRI Company for a DVD of all the MRI Scanning

would you be able to use that to start as the basic Input, I know you may need

or may not need, to run it through a computerized AUTO-CAD or drafting or

modeling design program, which are getting easier and cheaper? Now

it would seem to me that there is a Business opportunity here. If you have

detailed MRI, or for that matter PET Scans, or CT Scans, or even say multi angle

x-rays such as dental or other, that then a 3D Printer would make a much more

detailed way to say a doctor, surgeon, dentist (and they do have CNC Dental

machines to make Ceramic teeth, crowns, etc., this would most likely allow

anyone from doctors, dentists, surgeons to have a much more detailed perspective,

including the patient, or a teacher and student, on actual live cases say

determine fit, or visualize damage, or understand, design like I have fused vertebrae’s

and was one of the first to do all the titanium plates, screws, bone graphs, procedures,

etc. I was terrified when they in general, very general, explain (not in

great detail) though I can read a MRI as well as the surgeon, and that was

his comment as I was looking at it and started pointing and saying this is damaged

and why, he was not known for being out-going or having good

"bed-side manner" but he started discussing then in detail as said

you can read the film as well as I can. But it would have sure been easier

to have a 3D model of my vertebras and spinal cord and canal and disk, then the

various steps to show what was going to be done to me. Before the surgeon

a friend that worked in the operating room knew I was terrified as my options

were die or be a quadriplegic the two most likely out comes, though they were

trying to prevent those. Had the head of Nero-surgery, was not even in

the same state where my surgery or same company of hospitals, call me and

explain a lot more than my doctor did.

But with the advancements you could literally enlarge if you needed a more

detail physical look, or actual size to pre pare or prepare parts for things

things before the surgery, or for that matter try other technics or procedure

to see which provided the best results such s relieving pressure on the spinal

cord or optimizing vertebrae repair or size for preparing the bone-graphs.

Thus fairly inexpensive determine the best method and prepare a lot of the

pieces before you are actually in the middle of the surgery. I know it

would have made me feel a lot better to ay the doctor basically assembly the problem

in pieces showing me in detail then also the work to be done as you do not get

pictures prework so making it a lot more quicker in surgery and more understandable

to the layman. Architects for decades had used hand made models; many are

now using 3D Printers for modeling to present to clients to banks for

financing.

Such as they make metal 3D printers, I know expensive still as they micro

dust metal and lasers to literally melt/weld the thin layers together what

about advances in say advanced ceramics like Zircon. Aluminum Silicates, Boron

Nitrates, and other ceramic materials, etc., based parts as if can also in an

inert atmosphere add say carbon fiber thus creating a ceramic composite, hard

and strong so crack resistant and wear resistant, same would work with metal composites, actual

create some extremely interesting parts such as say the turbines in a

turbocharges well ceramics can withstand a lot higher temperature than metals,

or for that mater inserts such as engine sleeves or ceramic coating combustion chambers

and valves and exhaust ports thus able to utilize higher temperatures thus

release more power as well as well say pollution for a simple example in a

diesel engine exhaust you have the particulate particle device that literally

burns up the former black soothe that used to be one of a diesel engines major

issues, same for a unburned or partially burned hydrocarbon higher temperature

helps totally consume thus less pollution and higher power realization, and

also ceramics make excellent heat shields and the wear as harder than many/most

metals thus able to make lighter thus better performance and lower

weight. It would seem that 3D Ceramic Printers should be available but I

have yet to find one even on a prototype phase though they have commercial

metal 3D Printers.

Basically I am talking about mass produced customization also.

So I see several different types of potential based businesses.

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