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ZPrinting Helps Lab Discover POW/MIA Remains
3D Physical Examples of Human Skulls Enable Clarification of Image-Matching Techniques
The biggest forensic anthropology laboratory in the world is using Z Corporation 3D Printing Technology to aid identifying POW/MIA remains so they can be returned to their families and rest in peace.
The CILJ POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) is creating 3D samples of skulls from the CT scans of living people to enhance forensics techniques for identifying remains from the Korean War and various conflicts.
The systems are used in support of traditional identification ideas such as dental records, fingerprints, X-rays and biological profile comparisons.
This work promises to lead to more events like JPAC’s recent positive identification of a Korean War soldier killed in 1950.
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Our work is drastically vital to history and to the loved ones of soldiers who have performed the ultimate sacrifice, discussed Audrey Meehan, DNA specialist and project leader for the lab.
We wanted a 3D Printer for substaining historic artifacts and for printing examples of trauma to be used as teaching exemplars, yet it has opened up a world of ideal research and clinical purposes.
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The forensic area, using a Z Printer multicolor printer, is the building blocks of a project to establish the capability and set the agreement for skull photographic superimposition.
The process involves superimposing images of unidentified skulls onto photographs of known soldiers to work out probable matches.
It’s especially helpful in cases where DNA is not ready for use.
JPAC is the sole laboratory in the world engaged in this project, and its effort with Z-Printing shall make the way available to any qualified, trained investigator.
The ZPrinter’s perfect accuracy is meaningful to this highly detailed work, with a t-test finding no statistically required difference between measurements of a skull and its Z Printed example.
We used to send out for models that cost a fortune and looked appalling, said Meehan.
By Z-Printing them ourselves, we’re getting a improved item and saving time and taxpayer money.
neurosurgery and preservation
The lab has other, equally considerable needs for Z Printing, for example supporting patients at the nearby Army Center.
JPAC is Z-Printing vertebrae and skull samples of neurosurgery patients from their CT scans.
These detailed medical prototypes allow doctors to easily understand and work out their operations, meaning fast procedures, fewer shocks and better end outcomes.
People involved included an young child who craved vital plastic surgery due to a birth issue and an adult who needed a growth removed.
In a joined application, doctors are using a 3d printed skull to run tumor detection parts.
JPAC has also used the Z-Printer in the preservation of war scenes.
The lab has reproduced a jawbone from the crew of the Confederate naval ship CSS Alabama.
The mandible had been fastened to a cannon on the sea bed and, after scanning, was Z-Printed.
Although the remains were laid in an official ritual as the final unnamed Confederate soldier, JPAC has the reproduced example for its historical group.
JPAC ZPrinted the hip bones and skulls of members who passed away in the sinking of the USS Monitor in 19th century.
Different Z Prints are able to be viewed at The Mariner’s Museum in Newport News, Va.
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