Kaiyan Qiu, Berry Family Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and graduate student Alejandro Guillen Obando operate a 3D printer that can produce a beating model ...

For pre-surgical planning or medical education, a personalized version of the Living Heart can be registered in 3D space to a model of the patient in question. A long-term collaboration known as the ...

An engineer has created a 3D model of the human heart, inspired by his daughter’s heart condition, with the goal of creating a library of virtual hearts for researchers to use whenever they want.

Heart disease remains a primary cause of illness and mortality around the world. While minimally invasive procedures have improved cardiac care, the heart’s complex anatomy and constant motion require ...

"From the start, the vision for the project was to move away from the one-size-fits-most approach that has been the status quo for heart valve design and manufacturing, and toward a patient-specific ...

Washington State University researchers have developed a 3D-printed model of the left side of the heart that contracts and beats, offering the chance for surgeons and medical students to rehearse ...