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| Many 3D printed medical models were on display at RSNA 2016 |
There were more than 40 presentations pertaining to 3D printing at the RNSA 2016 annual meeting held in Chicago last November, among them was a discussion at the DICOM committee meeting attended by PARCA advisory board member Herman Oosterwijk. Among the issues 3D printing presents to the PACS administrators community is a lack of standards for the additional metadata to the print file to allow it to be managed in the PACS.
The risk is that the 3D printing medical imaging standards void will be filled with a variety of work-around solutions that will separate imaging-derived data from the patient’s imaging record. To address this risk, Oosterwijk reports that a DICOM working group has been resurrected to specifically extend and promote the use of DICOM for the creation, storage and management of 3D printing models.
"We need a DICOM “wrapper” that allows this, and that can encapsulate the most common standard formats similar to what is done by “wrapping” a pdf file into a DICOM file format," Oosterwijk wrote on his blog. "This activity is expected to give this application a major boost so that these objects can be properly managed.
"Another issue is how to label these objects, i.e. physically number or tag them, in the meantime maintaining patient privacy," Oosterwijk adds.
The risk is that the 3D printing medical imaging standards void will be filled with a variety of work-around solutions that will separate imaging-derived data from the patient’s imaging record. To address this risk, Oosterwijk reports that a DICOM working group has been resurrected to specifically extend and promote the use of DICOM for the creation, storage and management of 3D printing models.
"We need a DICOM “wrapper” that allows this, and that can encapsulate the most common standard formats similar to what is done by “wrapping” a pdf file into a DICOM file format," Oosterwijk wrote on his blog. "This activity is expected to give this application a major boost so that these objects can be properly managed.
"Another issue is how to label these objects, i.e. physically number or tag them, in the meantime maintaining patient privacy," Oosterwijk adds.
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