Two book chapters, describing our innovative digital scanning and 3D printing technologies from the ATLAS Facility have been published by Springer Nature in the recent title ‘Enhancing Biomedical Education: Integrating Digital Visualization and 3D Technologies’. This work was led by Dr Jennifer Paxton as supervisor on a number of undergraduate research projects. ‘Developing Digital Resources for Anatomy Teaching Using Structured Light Scanning Technology: A Student and Educator Opinion-Based Study’ focusses on the early development of our 3D scanning work to produce digital resources for online anatomical learning. This work was a combination of undergraduate research projects in Anatomy and Development and Biomedical Sciences and excellent work produced by Ellen Kelly, Katie Elcock, Tilly Gibson-Watt and high school student Lily Wilson, who joined us on a Nuffield Research Placement. Link to chapter ‘Production of Human Osteological Replicas Using a Combination of Structured Light Scanning and 3D Printing Technologies’ details our work in producing accurate 3D printed models from 3D digital scans. We evaluated several different technical factors to consider when producing 3D printed models and give our suggestions for cost-effective, useful models for anatomy teaching. This work was conducted by Joseph Woodhead, a final year Biomedical Sciences student in 2022. Joseph was also awarded the prize for best overall dissertation in Biomedical Sciences for this work.Link to chapter Publication date 29 Jan, 2025
