DocumentCode
1585840
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
fYear
2006
Firstpage
6041
Lastpage
6044
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615869
Filename
1615869
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