2018 AAPM Annual Meeting
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Session Title: 3D Printing
Question 1: The physician-artist is a concept derived from...
Reference:Rybicki FJ. Medical 3D Printing and Artistic Licence. The Lancet. 2018, 391(10121):651-652.
Choice A:The clinical models of introducing quality into clinical care.
Choice B:Premedical training in art history to enhance sensitivity.
Choice C:The “physician-scientist” concept, but where there is a greater emphasis on art.
Choice D:The idea that using art is a way to better communicate with patients.
Question 2: The physician-artist is best exemplified by...
Reference:Rybicki FJ. Medical 3D Printing and Artistic Licence. The Lancet. 2018, 391(10121):651-652.
Choice A:3D printing artistic holiday ornaments to support program operations.
Choice B:Digitally manipulating data sets from severe facial injuries for surgical reconstruction.
Choice C:Cleaning models and then painting them in an artistic fashion.
Choice D:Teaching art-based learning as elective program in medical residency.
Question 3: What is/are the main limiting factor(s) of the 3D printed phantoms accuracy when using high resolution 3D printers?
Reference:Challenges and limitations of patient-specific vascular phantom fabrication using 3D Polyjet printing. Ionita CN, Mokin M, Varble N, Bednarek DR, Xiang J, Snyder VK, Siddiqui AH, Levy EI, Meng H, Rudin S:. Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2014
Choice A:Imager Resolution.
Choice B:Reconstruction accuracy.
Choice C:Printer resolution.
Choice D:Only a and b.
Question 4: The primary purpose of endovascular treatment simulation is to:
Reference:3D printed Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm phantom for image guided surgical planning with a patient specific fenestrated endovascular graft system Meess KM, Izzo RL, Dryjski ML, Curl RE, Harris LM, Springer ME, Siddiqui AH, Rudin S, Ionita CN.. Paper 10138-23. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017
Choice A:Familiarize the surgeons with patient vascular geometry.
Choice B:Help hospital reduce costs.
Choice C:Reduce length of the procedure.
Choice D:Reduce length of the procedure.
Question 5: Which of the following are major steps of 3D printing patient-specific phantoms:
Reference:S. Leng et al, Construction of realistic phantoms from patient images and a commercial three-dimensional printer. J. of Medical Imaging, 3(3), 033501 (2016).
Choice A:Acquisition of volumetric image data.
Choice B:Segmentation of anatomy of interest.
Choice C:Processing and model editing.
Choice D:Printing and cleaning of the phantoms.
Choice E:All of above.
Question 6: To use an inkjet printer to print 2D or 3D breast phantoms, the regular printing ink is replaced with which of the following material:
Reference:L. Ikejimba et al, A novel physical anthropomorphic breast phantom for 2D and 3D x-ray imaging. Med. Phys. 44 (2), 2017
Choice A:No change needed, regular printing ink works fine.
Choice B:Water.
Choice C:Mixture of regular pigmented ink with iohexol.
Choice D:Color printing ink.
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