Organ Printing as an Information Technology: Toward Virtual Organ Biofabrication Line

摘要

Modern softwares including CAD softwares and virtual reality softwares allow to visualize and analyse the entire organ bioprinting process and build so-called virtual organ biofabrication line. This approach is already emerging as standard industrial practice in many industries for example in oil processing industry: "virtual oil refinery". The conceptual design of such virtual organ biofabrication line, initial step of design process and employed information technologies will be presented and discussed. Thus, it is logical to predict that human organs will be bioprinted at first in silico.