3D Printing in Radiotherapy: Personalized hardware for radiation medicine

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Additive manufacturing (AM), commonly referred to as 3D printing, is one of the ‘disruptive’ technologies that shape modern society. Its strength is the rapid prototyping capability which allows customisation of products and in the context of medicine personalisation of parts.

There are many different methods for additive manufacturing, as well as an increasing number of materials and increasingly sophisticated software for design of prints - importantly this is also starting to interface with software that is routinely used (imaging, surgery, treatment planning). The opportunities appear to be limitless, but this leads to a problem for practitioners as choice of appropriate technology and techniques are not obvious and there is limited guidance at present in a rapidly developing field.

3D Printing in Radiotherapy introduces additive manufacturing, its methods and materials. Applications in radiation oncology are covered and practical issues and applications of 3D printing, especially related to medium and low resource countries, are discussed.