3D Scanning: An Important Innovation in Pathology

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Shane Ferraro, M.H.S., PA(ASCP), an assistant supervisor of pathologists’ assistants in the Division of Anatomic Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to talk about the important innovation of 3D scanning in pathology.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro

00:54 Why is 3D scanning an important innovation in pathology?

02:51 Are there certain activities you can do with the audience that you weren’t able to do before? Are there certain insights you are hearing from the learners when you are doing that kind of approach?

03:40 What do you think is important for our audience to understand about 3D scanning?

06:12 What are some of the practicalities for implementing 3D scanning in a pathology practice?

08:23 Are there different teams that you are interacting with outside of pathology that is helping to make some bridges between pathology and other clinical departments?

09:22 In pathology, it sounds like it got started with forensic pathologists, and now it’s being brought out to the surgical practice?

10:12 How long does it take to scan some tissue? Is it relatively quick or like a day-long process?

11:40 Is this thought to replace surgical pathology photography in the next 5-10 years?

12:29 Where do you see this innovation going over these next 5-10 years?

14:46 Outro