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One of the challenges doctors face in diagnosing and treating abnormal heart conditions is understanding the mechanics of an individual's heart. Several companies have attempted to create usable 3D ...

Doctors could soon find better ways to treat heart ailments without having to do tests on lab rats – with a 3D model of the organ to be released by a French company. The "Living Heart Project" by ...

Dr Julius Guccione, a 50-year-old cardiac researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was mesmerised the first time he saw a virtual image of a beating heart. He’d been using math ...

Washington State University researchers have built a 3D-printed model of the left side of the heart that contracts and relaxes to simulate a real heartbeat, complete with embedded sensors and ...

How can you distinguish between a good surgeon and an exceptional surgeon? According to some medical experts, it's that all-too-rare ability to visualize a human organ in three dimensions from little ...