Date: December 2020.
Source: Aluminations Alumni Newsletter, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. In this issue: Alumni reflections on hospital life before and after the introduction of computers in the 1980s.
Excerpt: In 2004, the Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery approached ERC to investigate, implement
and manage an appropriate paediatric digital 3D measurement system. From the numerous systems available, Lloyd Ellis, one of the senior medical photographers, investigated six for their performance and suitability for paediatric medicine and built on our experience from previous years. The most appropriate system tested was found to be the 3dMD. With generous funding from the Muriel & Les Batten Foundation the system was purchased and the RCH was the first site in Australasia, and amongst the first few in the world, to operate the 3dMD system and establish a routine clinical 3D photographic imaging service.

The article highlights that the 3dMD imaging system has been used to support their patient care pathways – e.g. craniosynostosis, facial atrophy, Parry-Romberg syndrome, radiation therapy masks, deformational plagiocephaly, pectus carinatum, and may more.

Article: The Educational Resource Centre (ERC) – The Digital Age 1986-2015.
Authors: Gigi Williams FRPS, FBCA, FAIMBI, BAppSc, Former Director, Educational Resource Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

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