A precise replica of the patient's heart is created as a soft, flexible shell.
MIT engineers' newly developed robotic heart will help doctors adjust therapies to individuals' unique heart structures and functions. The personalized 3D-printed heart can control and imitate the patient's capacity to pump blood., the procedure begins with the researchers converting medical images of a patient's heart into a three-dimensional computer model, which they then 3D print with a polymer-based ink.
and aorta to simulate the heart's pumping function. Each sleeve's interior has a pattern that is similar to bubble wrap. Researchers can adjust the outflowing air to rhythmically expand the bubbles in the sleeve and constrict the heart, simulating the pumping motion of the heart when the sleeve is attached to a pneumatic system."All hearts are different," says Luca Rosalia, a graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Program in Health Sciences and Technology.
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