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完美替换缺失部分颅骨的修补物与患者颅骨的复合图像 A combined image showing a patient’s skull with the prosthesis designed to replace a missing piece of skull fitting perfectly 虚拟成 像与实 体模型 成功分离大脑连体儿，正是得益于三维模拟 整形外科 Plastic surgery Virtual images and physical models Seperating cerebrally conjoined twins was just one successful operation that has greatly benefited from three-dimensional modelling 离连体双胞胎有时候只是一项直接了当的手术而已；然 eparating conjoined twins can be a straightforward 而，在其它情况下却不可能进行。2003年，美国巴尔的 operation in some cases; in others it can be impossible. The 分摩约翰霍普金斯大学接手一个来自德国的案例，这是一 Scase that arrived from Germany on the doorstep of Johns 个可想象到的最为复杂的案例之一：两个女婴头部发生联体，皮肤 Hopkins University in Baltimore, US in 2003 was one of the 与骨骼都没有将二人的大脑分离开来。 most complicated imaginable. Two baby girls were conjoined at Ben Carson博士是一个专攻连体婴儿案例的神经外科医生，以 the head with neither skin nor bone separating their brains. 其为首的50多名专家组成的手术小组是世界上最好的手术队伍之 The surgical team, numbering around 50 experts led by 一。他们最需要观察到患者颅内的真实状况。 Dr Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon specialising in conjoined twin 医学成像具有着100多年的历史，这一领域取得了惊人的进展。 cases, was one of the best in the world. But what they really 在现行标准实践中，大多数成像技术的问题是这些技术提供的是二 needed was to literally see inside their patients’ heads. 维视图。核磁共振成像（MRI）、计算断层分析（CT）扫描与陈旧的 Medical imaging is more than a century old and advances 备用设备——X光，都是对患者身体生成二维片段。