{"id":3182,"date":"2016-11-28T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2016-11-28T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:10:18","slug":"3d-printing-in-anatomy-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/3d-printing-in-anatomy-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing in Anatomy Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3183 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/11\/PPF-final-image-K1024-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"ppf-final-image-k1024\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/>Several members of staff have been working on a model of the pterygopalatine fossa \u2013 this an anatomical space within the skull that is conceptually very difficult to understand.\u00a0 Using imaging software and a CT scan of the skull, we created a 3D render of the space.\u00a0 This enabled us to produce eight identical models with a 3D printer.\u00a0 The models were then painted and mounted on stands.<\/p>\n<p>The models were used in the dissection room to enhance 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year head and neck anatomy teaching.\u00a0 Dr Shivani Parihar and Dr Ross Bannon gave a poster presentation about our work at the ENT Scotland winter meeting on 18\/11\/16 and received an honourable mention at the prize-giving ceremony!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many people have contributed to this project:<\/p>\n<p>Ross Bannon<\/p>\n<p>Shivani Parihar<\/p>\n<p>Yiannis Skarparis<\/p>\n<p>Ian Gordon<\/p>\n<p>Murray Coutts<\/p>\n<p>Ian Parkin<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Chisholm<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3184 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/11\/Poster-presentation-K1024-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"poster-presentation-k1024\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Dr Shivani Parihar and Dr Ross Bannon with their poster at the ENT Scotland Winter meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of staff have been working on a model of the pterygopalatine fossa and using imaging software and a CT scan of the skull, we created a 3D render of the space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[18,19,384,395,413,508,586,770,911,940],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-3d","tag-3d-printing","tag-dr-ross-bannon","tag-dr-shivani-parihar","tag-dr-yiannis-skarparis","tag-fraser-chisholm","tag-ian-gordon","tag-murray-coutts","tag-prof-ian-parkin","tag-pterygopalatine-fossa"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 17:43:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}