The temporal bone model files for 3D-printing on this page were prepared by the Visible Ear Simulator team, Copenhagen Hearing and Balance Center, Rigshospitalet, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This includes any modified or derived versions of the files and physical models printed from them.

Additional permissions. In addition to the rights granted by CC BY-NC 4.0, we permit:

• Use of printed models in education and surgical training courses, including courses for which participants pay a fee, provided the models or files are not sold or offered as products in their own right.
• Printing of the models by a commercial printing service on behalf of an educational, clinical or research institution for that institution’s own non-commercial use.

Not permitted without separate written agreement: production or sale of physical models as commercial products, commercial distribution of the files or modified versions of them, and use of the models or images of them in commercial marketing.

Attribution. Please credit: “Temporal bone model files by the Visible Ear Simulator team, Rigshospitalet (visibleearsimulator.com), licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.” In publications, please cite our 3D-printing paper together with the relevant source dataset: for the VES model, Sørensen et al., the Visible Ear project (doi:10.1159/000066089); for the DeltaHRP, Epsilon, Eta, Gamma, Theta and Zeta models, Sieber et al., Scientific Data 2019 (doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.297).

Source data. The OpenEar datasets are published under CC BY 4.0 by their authors. This license covers only our prepared files; it does not restrict any use of the original OpenEar data under its own license.

Disclaimer. The files are provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, including as to anatomical accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose. They are not medical devices and are not intended for clinical or diagnostic use.