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emergentfutures: One of the biggest manufacturers in the world gives 3D printing a go To make a transducer by painstakingly micro-machining a brittle block of ceramic material can take many hours of work, though. As a result, even as the size and cost of the console that controls the scanner has fallen with advances in microelectronics (some are now small enough to fit in a doctor’s pocket and cost a few hundred dollars), the cost of making the probe itself remains stubbornly high—as much as ten times that of the console. At least, it does if you use traditional “subtractive” manufacturing techniques like cutting and drilling. However GE, a large American conglomerate, is now proposing to make ultrasound transducers by “additive” manufacturing—or three-dimensional printing, as it is also known via @umairh Full Story: The Economist

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One of the biggest manufacturers in the world gives 3D printing a go


To make a transducer by painstakingly micro-machining a brittle block of ceramic material can take many hours of work, though. As a result, even as the size and cost of the console that controls the scanner has fallen with advances in microelectronics (some are now small enough to fit in a doctor’s pocket and cost a few hundred dollars), the cost of making the probe itself remains stubbornly high—as much as ten times that of the console.

At least, it does if you use traditional “subtractive” manufacturing techniques like cutting and drilling. However GE, a large American conglomerate, is now proposing to make ultrasound transducers by “additive” manufacturing—or three-dimensional printing, as it is also known

via @umairh

Full Story: The Economist

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