• Yun Zou, Qing Han, Xisheng Weng, Yongwei Zou, Yingying Yang, Kesong Zhang, Kerong Yang, Xiaolin Xu, Chenyu Wang, Yanguo Qin, and Jincheng Wang.
• Department of Orthopedics, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun Department of Orthopedics, The Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing Department of maxillofacial surgery, The Stomatology Hospital of Jilin University Department of Radiology, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Feb 1; 97 (6): e9797.

AbstractRecently, clinical application of 3D printed model was increasing. However, there was no systemic study for confirming the precision and reliability of 3D printed model. Some senior clinical doctors mistrusted its reliability in clinical application. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the precision and reliability of stereolithography appearance (SLA) 3D printed model.Some related parameters were selected to research the reliability of SLA 3D printed model. The computed tomography (CT) data of bone/prosthesis and model were collected and 3D reconstructed. Some anatomical parameters were measured and statistical analysis was performed; the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to was used to evaluate the similarity between the model and real bone/prosthesis. the absolute difference (mm) and relative difference (%) were conducted. For prosthesis model, the 3-dimensional error was measured.There was no significant difference in the anatomical parameters except max height (MH) of long bone. All the ICCs were greater than 0.990. The maximum absolute and relative difference were 0.45 mm and 1.10%; The 3-dimensional error analysis showed that positive/minus distance were 0.273 mm/0.237 mm.The application of SLA 3D printed model in diagnosis and treatment process of complex orthopedic disease was reliable and precise.

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