Title :
Digital Geometry Processing Applied in Customized Medical Implant Design
Author :
Xiao-feng, Zhu ; Cheng-tao, Wang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mechanical Eng., Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai
Abstract :
Standard medical implants are used in most implantation cases, but in some special cases, only those implants conforming to individual patient´s skeletal morphology can serve the purpose. This paper proposes a new approach to design and fabricate customized exact-fit medical implants. With a real surgical case as the example, technical design details are presented; and two algorithms are given respectively for segmentation based on object features and triangular mesh defragmentation
Keywords :
computerised tomography; image segmentation; medical image processing; mesh generation; prosthetics; CT data; customized medical implant design; digital geometry processing; exact-fit medical implants; image segmentation; object features; patient skeletal morphology; triangular mesh defragmentation; Biomedical imaging; Bone tissue; Computed tomography; Data mining; Geometry; Implants; Solid modeling; Spline; Surface morphology; Surgery; Digital geometry processing; Medical implant; Rapid prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615869
